Medieval Science (Radio Edit)

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Greg Jenner and his guests look at a range of scientific discoveries spanning 1000 years of history, widely known as the medieval period. How were knowledge and scientific findings shared across a world with its countless languages and regions before the internet? Greg is joined by Dr Seb Falk and comedian Josie Long to look at some of the weird and wonderful advancements of the period which we still use today. For the full-length version of this episode, please look further back in the feed. Research by Rosanna Evans Script by Emma Nagouse, Rosanna Evans and Greg Jenner Project manager: Siefe Miyo Edit producer: Cornelius Mendez

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Woman's Hour.
0:04.0	I never would have dreamed of going out and playing in front of thousands of people all
0:07.8	around, you know, center court.
0:09.4	The daily podcast featuring women's voices.
0:12.1	It seems that I'm a threat and they scared all women like me who can say no to this barbaric
0:17.6	regime talking about women's lives.
0:20.1	You're doing what every other girl is doing, just going out at night, having fun and they
0:25.2	again, villainized us for it.
0:26.9	Woman's Hour.
0:27.9	First, on BBC Sounds.
0:35.9	Hello, and welcome to Your Dead To Me, a BBC Radio 4 comedy podcast that takes history
0:40.7	seriously.
0:42.0	My name is Greg Jenner.
0:43.0	I'm a public historian, author and broadcaster and the chief nerd on the funny kids show
0:47.5	horrible histories.
0:48.5	Today, we are packing our sundial, star maps and astrolaves as we travel back many centuries
0:54.3	to learn all about medieval science.
0:56.9	And to do that, I'm joined by two very special guests.
0:59.6	In History Corner, he's a historian of medieval science and it's an expert in the history
1:03.5	of astronomy, navigation and mathematics.
1:06.1	He teaches at the University of Cambridge and his fascinating book The Light Ages was
1:10.0	a Times and Telegraph book of the year in 2020.
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