Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain introduce Curious Cases

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Hello, You’re Dead to me listener. Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain here, we thought you might like to know we have a brand-new series of Curious Cases. To start things off we look into the world of crabs and look into the possibility of us all eventually turning into crab like beings.

So, we thought we’d claw our way into your feed, with our very first episode of the new series. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.
0:07.2	He scored goals, lifted trophies and broken records along the way.
0:11.4	And now he's got a podcast.
0:13.2	Welcome to the Wayne Rooney show.
0:15.0	Wayne Rooney, Kay Kerrude and me, Kelly Summers, break down the biggest stories in the
0:19.3	Premier League and beyond.
0:20.7	Plus, we'll hear the funniest and most outrageous stories from Wayne's career. I've never seen the manager go with someone like he did. There's no way he could have played for Man United ever again. The Wayne Rooney Show. It's what everybody's talking about. Watch your night player. Listen on BBC Sounds. Hello, you're dead to me fans. It is Hannah and Dahr here from Curious Cases. You might remember me from a past episode of You're Dead to Me, where I've done great, Jenna. Have you been cheating on me on different podcasts? Yeah, I do other stuff. I mean, but the implication this is that these people only ever listen to Your Dead to me and no other media in the last 20 years.
0:54.9	And then we'll go, oh, who's that guy? Oh, he was once on an episode of You're Dead to Me. And that is the only reason why I recognize this is an extremely distinctive Irish voice. It was a really good episode about Leonardo da Vinci. I was strongly in McRen. It was one of the live ones with a crowd, and it was very funny. What can you remember?
1:09.8	That I trashed Leonardo da Vinci
1:11.4	and then Greg General went.
1:12.6	He's one of my favorite people in history
1:14.3	and I said he never MacGreend. It was one of the live ones with a crowd and it was very funny. What can you remember? That I trashed Leonardo da Vinci and then Greg General went.
1:12.5	He's one of my favourite people in history.
1:14.5	He never built a weapon. He painted seven paintings and he just basically bluffed his way around the Renaissance.
1:21.0	The man invented helicopters.
1:23.5	He invented a bum bum bum bumble machine.
1:26.8	I mean, no one's built
1:28.2	and made it work
1:28.9	right
1:30.2	okay
1:31.3	so if you're still angry
1:32.5	with Darrow O'Brien
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