Saladin
You're Dead to Me
BBC
4.7 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
You might have learned about Richard the Lionheart in school (or from Disney’s Robin Hood), but how much do you know about his opponent, the legendary Saladin?
Why does Saladin have such an enduring reputation as a good guy? Host Greg Jenner is joined by comedian Maria Shehata and historian Professor Jonathan Phillips. It’s history for people who don’t like history!
Produced by Dan Morelle Scripted and researched by Emma Nagouse, assisted by Emily Greenwell.
A Muddy Knees Media production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.6 | Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, |
| 0:07.7 | a history podcast for people who don't like history or elix people who forgot to learn |
| 0:11.4 | the me at school. My name is Greg Jenner, I am a public historian author and I'm the |
| 0:15.3 | chief nerd on the BBC comedy show For A Well History. How does this podcast work? |
| 0:19.0 | Well, every episode I'm joined by a five star historian and a rising star of comedy. |
| 0:22.9 | Come for the historical expertise, stay for the lulls. |
| 0:25.5 | Today we are travelling back to the medieval Middle East to meet one of the Islamic world's |
| 0:29.1 | most famous warriors, Saladin. |
| 0:31.8 | And joining me today in History Corner is a professor of crusading history at Royal |
| 0:35.6 | Holloway University of London. He's the author of numerous books, including a recent biography |
| 0:40.8 | of Saladin, which is pretty handy. You literally wrote the book on it. |
| 0:44.7 | It is, of course, Professor Jonathan Phillips. Hi Jonathan, how are you? |
| 0:47.4 | Hi Greg, nice to be here. |
| 0:48.7 | Thanks for coming and in comedy corner, she's an award-winning Egyptian-American comedian |
| 0:52.3 | who's swam across the Atlantic to come live with us, Brits. Yes, all of us, one by one. |
| 0:56.4 | She's the co-host of the Frank podcast about relationships. |
| 0:59.3 | You may have seen her on BBC's period dramas on Channel 5 on coming release viral dating |
| 1:03.4 | video. Horror stories, pretty nasty. It is the wonderful Maria Shehata. |
| 1:07.2 | Hi, how are you? |
| 1:08.2 | Good, good. I swam across the Atlantic. |
| 1:10.7 | You swam all the way, didn't you? |
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