Prohibition in the USA (Radio Edit)

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Greg Jenner is joined by historian Prof Sarah Churchwell and comedian Kemah Bob in 1920s USA to follow the implementation and after effects of Prohibition. They take a look at the origins of the Prohibition laws and hear how a movement designed to encourage temperance backfired on the nation. For the full-length version of this episode, please look further back in the feed. Produced by Cornelius Mendez Script by Greg Jenner and Emma Nagouse Research by Tim Galsworthy A production by The Athletic for BBC Radio 4.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.7	Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me.
0:08.0	My name is Greg Jenner, I'm a public historian, author and broadcaster and I'm the chief nerd
0:12.3	on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories.
0:14.7	On this podcast we serve up a refreshing cocktail of laughs and facts that won't leave you
0:19.0	with a hangover the next morning.
0:20.6	And today we are journeying back to the 1920s and early 30s to learn all about the prohibition
0:26.0	era in the United States of America.
0:28.7	And to help me distill fact from fiction, I'm joined by two very special guests.
0:33.6	In History Corner, she's chair of public understanding of the humanities and the University of London's
0:37.8	School of Advanced Study.
0:39.6	It is Professor Sarah Churchwell.
0:41.3	Hello Sarah, thank you for joining us.
0:42.9	Thank you so much for having me.
0:44.4	And in Comedy Corner, she's a comedian, writer and producer from Houston, Texas, now based
0:48.4	in London, in addition to being a hilarious stand up.
0:51.4	You'll have seen her on Telly as host of It's A Sin After Hours or Herder on Loads of Radio
0:55.8	and Podcasts, it's the spectacular Kima Bob.
0:58.8	Hello Kima, how are you?
1:00.1	Hey, thanks for having me.
1:01.9	I'm alright, you know.
1:03.4	Kima, your first time on the show, how were you with History at School?
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