Hello my lovely bed twixters it's me Kate Lister I'm so glad to be here with you once again

but before we can get going in case you've forgotten what this whole show is about and how we can be

particularly sensitive at times.

Here's your fair news warning.

This is an adult podcast book by adults to other adults about adulty things in an

adult way covering a range of adult subjects and you should be an adult too. We are actually talking

about incest today so although I do mess around with the Fair News warning quite a bit I think

that it's fair to say that this episode is reaching the very outer limits of what anybody wants to listen to on a podcast.

So now you have been warned. If you will persist in listening to this, don't be writing as angry letters because fair do's you have been

warned.

There's no escaping it at At the time of this recording we are building up to a general election in the UK.

U.K. And as our politicians come out to battle, kind of, it makes me think about how politicians

battled in years gone by. Were they hiding in fridges? No, they weren't.

You might think the slur and slander of modern politics can be a bit out there, but they have got nothing, nothing on the Romans who were way ahead of the political insult game.

And what was their go-to insult to discredit a fellow politician?

You guessed it. It was to... There's just no delicate way of putting this. They accused them of incest.

And they were all doing it the accusations

were flying around like anyone's business it's a cheap shot for sure and in the

political sphere who can resist one of those but what else do we know about

incest in ancient Rome and what is

there evidence of it during that time? Well I don't know if you prepared for

this one but we're going to do it anyway. Let's go. what do you look a funny man? Oh money of course.

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