Frederick Douglass

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Greg Jenner is joined by guests Prof Emily Bernard and comedian Toussaint Douglass in 19th-century American to meet the remarkable Frederick Douglass. From heartbreaking beginnings, Frederick fought on to become a famed abolitionist, orator, writer and statesman who broke racial barriers in government and dedicated his life to fighting for the freedom of all people. Research by Anna-Nadine Pike and Jess White Written by Emma Nagouse, Anna-Nadine Pike and Greg Jenner Produced by Emma Nagouse and Greg Jenner Assistant Producer: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow Project Management: Isla Matthews Audio Producer: Steve Hankey You’re Dead To Me is a production by The Athletic for BBC Radio 4.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.6	Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, the Radio 4 comedy podcast that takes history
0:10.9	seriously.
0:11.9	My name is Greg Jenner, I'm a public historian author and broadcaster.
0:15.6	And today we are journeying back to 19th century America to learn all about a man who escaped
0:20.6	enslavement to become a visionary abolitionist, orator and writer.
0:25.2	Frederick Douglass.
0:26.7	And to help me do that, I am joined by two very special guests.
0:29.9	In History Corner, she is a cultural historian and literary scholar at the University of
0:33.4	Vermont, where she is the Julian Lindsay Green and Gold Professor of English and an Andrew
0:38.5	Carnegie Fellow.
0:40.2	You may have read her wonderful book, Black Is The Body, Stories From My Grandmother's
0:43.6	Time, My Mother's Time and Mine, which won the 2020 LA Times Prize for autobiographical
0:48.6	prose.
0:49.6	And you'll certainly remember her from our episode on the Harlem Renaissance, one of my
0:53.3	faves, is Professor Emily Bernard.
0:55.6	Welcome back, Emily.
0:56.6	Hello.
0:57.6	And in comedy corner.
0:59.1	He's an award-winning rising star of stand-up and comedy writing.
1:01.8	You may have seen him on BBC Three's Stand-Up for Live Comedy, or in loads of Dave TV
1:05.3	shows, like outsiders, hypothetical question team or late night mash.
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