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Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, a history podcast for people who don't like

history or at least people who forgot to learn any at school. My name is Greg Jeddup,

I'm a public historian, author and I'm the chief nerd on the BBC comedy show Horrible

History. What are we doing this podcast? Well, we get together expert, history nerds and

exceptional comedy queens and we have a good old gal about yesterday. And today we are

trekking all the way back to the 12th century back to France. Am I going on a crusade?

A nice one, don't worry, to get to know the medieval she-wolf herself, Shakira. Sorry,

no, not Shakira, no. Eleanor of Akitane, that's right. And today I'm joined by two shiny new guests.

In History Corner, she's doing her PhD at the University of Winchester, where she specialises

in medieval ideas of authority and queenship. Specifically looking at Eleanor of Akitane and

various other queens. It is Gabby Story. Hi Gabby, how are you? Hi Greg, I'm good thanks,

thanks for having me. Pleasure to have you here. And in Comedy Corner,

she's a BAFTA nominated comedian, musician, actor and improviser. You've seen on the

telly loads of times at Live The Apollo, mocked the week, QI and recently, comedians giving lectures,

but she's best known for her viral segments on the Mashed report. It's the wonderful Rachel Paris.

Hello. Hello. Hello. It's lovely to be here. Thank you for coming in. Rachel, I love ostentatious,

which is the improvised Jane Austen novels that you do every night with a gang of very funny people.

That's right, you love it, my mum loves it. Mum's everywhere, love it.

It's historically funny, but I'm assuming therefore you're properly into your history,

or at least 19th century history. I am. Yeah, I really love history. I love

history at school. I'm really, I love historical programs and stories and books and everything.

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