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Hello and welcome to Your Dead To Me, a radio for history podcast for everyone, for

people who don't like history, do like history or people who forgot to learn any at school.

My name is Greg Jenner, I'm a public historian, author and broadcaster and I'm the chief nerd

on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories.

You may have heard my other podcast, Home School History, but that's mostly for the kids.

On this podcast we serve up a refreshing cocktail of laughs and facts that won't leave you

with a hangover the next morning.

And if you've listened to some of our previous episodes, you'll know that we're rounding

off series three with five episodes on American History.

And today we are joining back to the 1920s and early 30s to learn all about the prohibition

era in the United States of America.

And to help me distill fact from fiction, I'm joined by two very special guests.

In History Corner, she's chair of public understanding of the humanities at the University

of London School of Advanced Study and is an expert on the American literature, culture

and history of this period, particularly the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

In fact her book, Careless People, Murder, Mayhem and the invention of the Great Gatsby

is full of juicy original research into the prohibition era and we'll be exploiting

that today.

It's Professor Sarah Churchill.

Hello Sarah, thank you for coming.

Thank you so much for having me.

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