BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

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 chief nerd on the

funny kids show Horrible Histories.

Today, we are taking the showboat back to the 20th century to get to know the American

activist actor, scholar and booming bass baritone, Paul Robson.

And to help me do that, I am joined by two very special guests.

In History Corner, she's a professor of English and comparative literature at the Centre

for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, a Columbia University in New York City.

She specialises in the intersection between music and politics, and you may have seen her

in the accompanying documentary series, a four forest-witcher's TV drama, Godfather of

Harlem.

She's the author of several books, including Everything Man, the form and function of Paul

Robson, its professor, Shana L. Redmond.

Welcome, Shana.

Thank you so much for having me.

And in Comedy Corner, she's a returning hero of your dead to me and one of our very best

podcast pals, she's a comedian, storyteller, actor and writer, she's the host of the Netflix

Game Show, Flinch.

She's been on live with the Apollo, Masterport, Mop the Week, Have the News for You, all the

telly, and even most recently, Taskmaster Brilliant, it's the delightful Desiree

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