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🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 110 minutes
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In this week's episode, Dan and Mags sit down with Simon Trafford, Senior Lecturer in medieval history to dive into the topic of mead, how it's made, and the multiple purposes it was used for.
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| 1:08.8 | let's get into today's show. I'm really excited to see |
| 1:11.1 | what we're going to learn, whether it's going to ruin my entire new venture that I've been |
| 1:15.8 | working on for a party year. But we'll find out that giggle belongs to my lovely |
| 1:23.4 | co-host and in-house archaeologist Max Havgar. |
| 1:26.9 | Hello, lo, lo, lo, love. It might have been Simon, I don't know. I think it was co-host and in-house archaeologist Max Havega. |
| 1:27.9 | Hello. Hello. |
| 1:28.1 | It might have been Simon. |
| 1:30.0 | I don't know. |
| 1:30.9 | I think it was me. |
| 1:32.1 | I think I unmuted myself as I was giggling, so it became kind of abrupt as well. |
| 1:37.1 | I was like I think there was you. |
| 1:38.8 | It sounded like a nice deal. |
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