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You're Dead to Me. We're the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Also from the BBC

and presented by me, Greg Jenner. I should have told you that at the beginning. Sorry.

Anyway, like many other BBC podcasts, such as Desert Island Discs, Evil Genius, or In Our Time, your dead to me is available first on BBC Sounds,

a whole month earlier than anywhere else, in fact. So if you can't wait another day to hear

the very latest in history and loads of other good stuff, then listen first on BBC Sounds.

BBC Radio 2, 10 to the top.

So here we go then, it's 10 to the top.

And our first contestant is Ian Vickers in Stockton on Tees.

Welcome, Ian.

Good morning.

Oh, Ian, you've got one of them hobbies that I know I need,

but I won't be allowed to have.

You're a metal detector.

Everybody says that, Vernon. Everybody you speak to says, oh, I love to do it. I want to try it. I just did. And I wish I'd started when I was a young man, to be honest. Yeah, I think there's something quite fascinating. It goes back to being a kid on the beach. It's the hunter-gatherer, I think. It's just, and it's the chance to just save those little bit of history

that are going to get broken by the plough next time round, you know. We can pull them out the ground and save them. Have you thrown anything whilst you've been metal detecting? I've been really lucky. I've got some really good permissions. You've got to ask permission before you go on land, and I've got some really good permissions local around the Sedgefield area

and I've pulled some wonderful things up there. So most

detectorists want the little medieval hammered pennies, little silver pennies that are made by a little

planchered off, flannel silver sat on a die, a die goes over the top, striking with a hammer,

prints the coin and we pull quite a few of

those up locally. So, yeah. I'm not lucky. Yeah. It's amazing when you think about it that that little

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