Introducing... Dead Funny History

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Attention kids of all ages! Greg Jenner introduces his brand-new comedy history show for all the family.

From Ramesses the Great to the History of Football, the team behind You're Dead to Me serves up a smorgasbord of the funniest, messiest, and most astonishing stories from history.

Expect pirates, spies, superstars, chariot races, bouncing cats, ancient toilets, radioactive notebooks, and a pig named Albert, all crammed into 14-minute episodes packed with jokes and sketches.

Listen on BBC Sounds from Monday 15 December, 2025.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.7	Hello, Greg here.
0:06.9	Hope you're doing okay.
0:08.0	And I hope you enjoyed our most recent series of You're Dead to Me.
0:11.0	I'll be back in the new year with a brand new series.
0:13.6	But before then, I heard some news of something else from the Your Dead to Me team.
0:17.9	This Christmas, forget about socks.
0:19.7	Forget about a jigsaw with missing pieces. No,
0:22.2	we've got the best present of all. Dead people! Oh, that sounds like zombies. Sorry, it's not
0:27.6	zombies. Um, let me start again. In our new family-friendly podcast series, Dead Funny History,
0:34.7	historical figures come back to life for just long enough to argue with me,
0:38.6	tell their life stories and sometimes get on my nerves.
0:41.7	Oh, it's not my fault.
0:43.9	Yes, it is.
0:45.3	Oh.
0:46.1	So go ahead and unwrap some history.
0:48.2	There are 15 new episodes waiting under your tree.
0:51.0	There's Ramsey's the Great.
0:52.4	There's Josephine Baker and even the history of football.
0:55.6	Can he hold the ball with his hands by his feet? Can he catch it, rush with it? Can other players
1:00.5	tackle him? Hackishin scows out his eyes, tickle him. Oh, never mind. So this Christmas,
1:06.2	give your ears, and indeed your family's ears, a treat with dead funny history. You can find it in
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