Ramesses the Great (Radio Edit)

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Greg Jenner and his guests lift the lid on one of Ancient Egypt's greatest rulers, Ramesses the Great. How did Ramesses acquire the nickname 'The Great'? What were the reasons for the adulation he received from his subjects? How long did he rule and how many temples were built in his honour? Greg discusses these questions and many more with his guests, the comedian and writer Sophie Duker and the historical expert Dr Campbell Price.

Produced by Greg Jenner and Emma Nagouse

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan
0:05.2	I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy
0:10.2	podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.
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0:18.0	making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.
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0:24.4	subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer
0:29.6	from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you
0:36.2	fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.
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0:45.0	Hello, Greg here, hope you're doing well, and I hope you have been enjoying Series 7 of your
0:50.5	dead to me, lots of fun for us to make that one. We've really enjoyed it.
0:53.4	We've had some lovely feedback from you all, thank you. Glad you like it. We have one
0:58.7	episode left in the series. It's a big spectacular one. It's our live special all about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1:05.4	where we were joined by an orchestra an absolutely massive orchestra the BBC concert
1:10.7	orchestra 54 musicians and a conductor and David O'Dokertie in Comedy Corner.
1:15.2	It was a huge amount of fun to record at LSO St Luke's.
1:18.6	You'll be hearing it soon, but not just yet, we're going to put it out on the 29th of March which is for the Easter weekend.
1:25.0	So in the interim we have a couple of weeks where we don't have a new episode coming out
1:29.2	so we're going to do a couple of re-versions from previous series but the cut-down radio version.
1:34.8	So the first episode is going to be Ramsees the Great, that's of course snipped down to 28 minutes,
1:40.5	so half the length of the normal recording and then the next episode after that will
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