Episode 129 – Rotten Romans (Horrible Histories series)
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Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
For this installment of Flashback Summer, we flashed way back to ancient Rome. We read The Rotten Romans from the Horrible Histories series by Terry Deary & Martin Brown with returning guest, librarian Laura. It’s a whimsically British look at history with some cartoons that remain inscrutable, even to the eyes of adult Americans with history degrees. This podcast is only available in English, because Latin is a dead language (RIP).
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Ancient Roman Readers Advisory sent by listener Lydia
Candy Pairing: Kait says Fig Newtons, Laura says chocolate, Renata says no thank you.
Coming up next: Dealing With Dragons by Patricia Wrede.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about gross dead people so you don't have to. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:18.5 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:19.7 | And for this episode, we read Rotten Romans by Terry Deary and |
| 0:24.0 | Martin Brown. Joining us to discuss this horrible history is Laura, librarian and known Roman |
| 0:30.9 | apologist. Hello. Hi, Laura. Welcome back to the podcast. Happy to be here. You might remember Laura from our 50 Shades movie episode and our queer episodes on definitely the what's her name, the fucking having it all book. |
| 0:52.3 | And also Men are for Mars. |
| 0:57.3 | Were you on the Men Are for Mars one no i missed that one sadly Laura what do we remember you from nothing apparently no weren't you on a regular |
| 1:05.3 | episode too nope what well glad you're here now i don't think so unless I've forgotten about it. |
| 1:12.3 | Okay. |
| 1:13.1 | Welcome back to Laura, who we remember from nothing. |
| 1:19.9 | Thanks, guys. |
| 1:21.1 | Except for being a great friend. |
| 1:23.0 | Yes. |
| 1:23.5 | Outside of the podcast. |
| 1:25.3 | And an excellent audience member at the interview of the vampire episode. |
| 1:29.3 | Yes. |
| 1:30.1 | I definitely remember that, as do our listeners, undoubtedly. |
| 1:37.5 | All right, so we're continuing on with Flashback Summer, which is our series where we're revisiting books from our childhoods or our |
| 1:47.6 | guest childhoods or, you know, the childhoods of some children, certainly. So this is a book from |
| 1:56.4 | the Horrible Histories series, which I never read any of before this podcast, so I'm going to let |
| 2:03.7 | Laura say something about them. Yeah, okay. So I read these books when I was a child, and I'm |
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