Hatshepsut
You're Dead to Me
BBC
4.7 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Greg Jenner is joined by special guests Kemah Bob and Dr Campbell Price as they head back to Ancient Egypt to meet the unique and powerful ruler, Hatshepsut.
She reigned for over 20 years, built a temple which is still admired today, had a ‘special’ relationship with statues and was one of the first rulers to focus on divinity rather than gender norms. So why did history try to erase her?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.5 | Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, the Radio 4 comedy podcast that takes history |
| 0:09.6 | seriously. |
| 0:10.6 | My name is Greg Jenner, I'm a public historian author and broadcaster, and former chief |
| 0:14.6 | nerd on the BBC comedy show Porra Boy Histories. |
| 0:17.4 | And today we are travelling back thousands of years to unwrap the mysteries of ancient |
| 0:22.0 | Egypt, ultimate yummy mummy, who ruled as Pharaoh for over two decades. |
| 0:27.2 | Yes, we're talking about Queen Hat Sheppson, and to help us do that I'm joined by two very |
| 0:31.6 | special guests. |
| 0:33.2 | In History Corner, he's curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum, a fellow at |
| 0:38.3 | the University of Liverpool and the chair of the Egypt Exploration Society. |
| 0:42.3 | What a job. |
| 0:43.3 | You may have read his excellent book Pocket Museum, Ancient Egypt, and you definitely would |
| 0:47.0 | have heard him on our Ramesses The Great Episode. |
| 0:48.9 | It's the fantastic Doctor Campbell Price. |
| 0:50.7 | Hello Campbell, welcome back. |
| 0:52.2 | Hello, I'm delighted to be back. |
| 0:54.6 | Much happier talking about Hat Sheppson, in fact the Ramesses, she would definitely get |
| 0:58.1 | an invite to my fancy dinner party over him. |
| 1:01.2 | Oh, okay, playing favourites already. |
| 1:03.9 | And in Comedy Corner, she's a fantastic comedian, writer and producer, and she's returning |
| 1:07.9 | to the show. |
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