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Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, a BBC Radio 4 comedy podcast that takes history

seriously. My name is Greg Jenner, I'm a public historian, author, broadcaster and I'm

the chief nerd on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories. On this podcast we ruthlessly

smash together education and entertainment to expand your historical horizons whilst

gently tickling your funny bone. And in this episode we're grabbing our iron staffs and

pointy beards to travel all the way back to 16th century Russia, to explore the life

and times. Or is that life in crimes of Ivan the Terrible? To help us navigate the terrors

and treacheries we are joined by two very special guests. In History Corner, his professor

of global history at the University of Oxford, where he works on the history of Russia,

the Middle East, China and beyond, he is the author of the fascinating bestsellers,

The Silk Roads and The New Silk Roads, and you will remember him of course from the Genghis Khan

episode and the Justinian and Theodora episodes of Your Dead To Me. It's one of our best podcast

pals, Professor Peter Frankapan. It's great to have you back Peter. I'm so relieved to be back.

Thank you for having me again. We're delighted to have you back. And in Comedy Corner, she's a hilarious

stand up and writer and actor who is nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2018 Edinburgh Comedy Awards.

You'll recognise her from appearances on QI, mocked the week in the now show. Plus she also has

three different shows available on BBC Sounds. There's fights about Russia in the 1990s,

there's Ok computer, and then there's also human error and all about technology. It's

a brilliant and clearly very busy, Olga Koch. Welcome Olga.

Hello everyone. Oh, hello. Olga, you're a proper Russian.

Yeah, I think so. I hope so. Thank you so so much for having me. I'm very, very excited to be here.

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