Joan of Arc
You're Dead to Me
BBC
4.7 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Delusion or divine intervention? Learn about Joan of Arc’s super sewing skills, her badass credentials, and the story of why it took nearly half a century for her to become a saint. If you think it’s tough being a woman now, find out what it was like in 1400s France.
Joining historian Greg Jenner to learn about Joan are comedian Catherine Bohart of The Mash Report, and Dr Helen Castor, medieval historian and author of The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth.
Script: Greg Jenner Research: Emma Nagouse Producer: Dan Morelle
A Muddy Knees production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.4 | Hello and welcome to Your Dead To Me, a history podcast for people who don't like history |
| 0:10.4 | or release people who forgot to learn any at school. My name is Greg Jenner, I'm a public |
| 0:13.7 | historian, author and I'm the chief nerd on the BBC comedy show Horrible History. I'm |
| 0:17.8 | the guy who puts history in a silly wig and clown shoes that makes it tap dance in the |
| 0:21.0 | office. |
| 0:22.0 | In this show I'm always joined by an expert historian with a passion for the past and |
| 0:25.4 | an A grade comedian with a pong shaw for puns. To begin to chat you learn some stuff, it's |
| 0:29.6 | a very simple format. Today we are crossing the English channel Donning our suit of armour |
| 0:34.0 | and going to war with France's patron saint Joan of Arc. |
| 0:37.6 | Now I should at this point mention I'm Harf French and my mum raised me to be a proud |
| 0:41.2 | Frenchman. In History Corner she is one of the BBC's finest history broadcasters, you'll |
| 0:45.6 | have seen her on the telly all the time and on Radio 4. She's also the acclaimed biographer |
| 0:49.6 | of several medieval women including Joan of Arc, which is pretty handy. It is the splendid |
| 0:54.7 | Dr Helen Castor. Hi Helen, thanks for coming. |
| 0:58.0 | And in Comedy Corner she's a classically trained actress and the rising star of stand-up |
| 1:02.1 | you'll have seen her on the Mash Report, 8 out of 10 cats and in a truly extraordinary |
| 1:06.3 | episode of roast battle where she and her girlfriend Sarah Keyworth savagely rips the |
| 1:11.5 | piss out of each other for about 5 minutes and it is so funny and brutal and you should |
| 1:15.2 | watch it on YouTube. It is the wonderful Catherine Bohard. |
| 1:18.2 | Hello. |
| 1:19.2 | Did you agree in advance to be savaged to each other all the year? |
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