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Britain's best-selling history magazine. I'm Ellie Korthon.

Listening to today's podcast, you'll realize that medieval eels are a lot more interesting

than you might first think.

Dr. John Wyatt Greenlee has written a feature on how eels were used to pay rents in the Middle Ages

for the October issue of BBC History magazine.

And our content director, Dave Musgrove, dropped him a line to get

the low down. Today I am talking to Dr. John Wyatt Greenlee. He's written a marvelous feature in the October 2020 issue of BBC History

magazine on the subject of medieval eels, which is a topic that he tackled in his doctoral

thesis.

Now, you might think that's a pretty specific topic,

but in my view, it is a fascinating way

to get under the skin of medieval society and economy.

So that's what we're going to talk about today.

Loads of interesting things to chat about. John Wyatt, welcome, thank you very much for

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