Jack Sheppard

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Host Greg Jenner is joined by historian Dr Lena Liapi and comedian Stu Goldsmith in 18th century London to examine the life of infamous criminal, Jack Sheppard. From his early years in the workhouses of Spitalfields, we follow Jack from carpentry apprentice to infamous escape artist and renowned criminal as he became one of the earliest examples of London celebrity.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.6	Is this thing on?
0:08.4	There's something you need to know.
0:10.5	A new thriller is coming to BBC Sounds.
0:13.2	They're keeping it under wraps but we've hacked the system.
0:15.8	The world is dying.
0:17.2	It's time to take action.
0:19.0	Subscribe to Power Out on BBC Sounds.
0:21.8	Power Out.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, a history podcast for everyone.
0:37.5	For people who don't like history, people who do like history and people who forgot
0:40.9	to learn the near school.
0:42.3	My name is Greg Jenner.
0:43.3	I am a public historian, author and broadcaster.
0:45.8	I'm the chief nerd on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories and you might have heard
0:49.5	my kids podcast, Home School History.
0:51.8	But this podcast is all about getting lolltastic and scholastic with top notch comics and super
0:57.1	smart historians.
0:58.6	Today we are grabbing our lock picks and our crowbars and we are travelling back to the
1:02.7	18th century to London to meet the celebrated criminal Prison Breaker extraordinaire and
1:07.7	ultimate Jack the Lad Jack Shepherd.
1:10.8	And to help me do that I am joined by two very special guests.
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