Shag, Marry, Kill: Roman Emperor Edition
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
History Hit
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Which would be better for a fling, which would you not touch with a barge pole, and which is marriage material? There's only one way to find out.
This episode was edited by Tim Arstall and produced by Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, it's your host, Kate Lister. Now listen here, I have some very exciting news for you, |
| 0:05.8 | Betwixters. After selling out our live recording of Betwixt on Thursday the 4th of September, |
| 0:12.3 | we sold it out again. And then we sold it out again. And now we've had to be moved to the biggest |
| 0:17.5 | theatre that they have. And that means we have a few more tickets on sale. |
| 0:22.8 | So I can tell you a little bit more about the show now. We have a very special guest, |
| 0:27.6 | a very good friend of this show, who you will be most likely to find talking about medieval things. |
| 0:34.4 | Yes, it's the epic Dr. Eleanor Janager. And what are we going to talk about? Well, |
| 0:40.1 | we are going to be playing a historical game of Shaggath, Marrieth and Killeth, Kings Edition, |
| 0:45.4 | where we will be deep diving into the sex lives, the dressing rooms, the bathrooms, |
| 0:49.6 | and the marriages of three kings, with some audience participation, of course, a lot of history participation of course a lot of history and of |
| 0:57.0 | course a lot of laughs we hope that we will see you there book your tickets by following the link |
| 1:02.3 | in the show notes or go to kingsplace.co.uk or just search for the London podcast festival and |
| 1:08.2 | you'll find them. Snap up the last remaining tickets and I'll see you there. Right on with the show. Hello, my lovely betwixters. It's me, Kate Lister. This is betwixters sheets. I am me and you are you. But before we can go any further together, I do have to give you the fair do's warning because if you keep listening and you get upset, well, fair do's that one was on you. And here it is. This is an adult podcast spoken by adults, other adults about adulty things in an adulty way covering a range of adult subjects. I just be an adult too. Oh, I think we've all had enough of that by now. Let's get on with it. Welcome to the streets of ancient Rome, where I am going full millennial TV presenter and plucking three emperors, |
| 1:45.0 | and letting today's guests decide whether they would shag, marry or kill them. |
| 1:49.2 | I know, I know, it's savage and it devalues humanity, |
| 1:52.0 | but oddly enough, that is something the Roman world in the early 2000s had very much in common. |
| 1:56.8 | Plus, you have to admit it's quite satisfying to take the power away from these bloodthirsty, |
| 2:06.3 | eager maniac emperors for once, albeit a good couple of thousand years later than we'd like. |
| 2:12.5 | It's going to be quite the job convinced them all to come back to the studio with me, though, so bear with me, and I will see you there. What do you look for a man? |
| 2:19.2 | Oh, money, of course. |
| 2:20.8 | You're supposed to rise when an adult speaks to you. |
| 2:23.1 | I make perfect copies of whatever my boss needs by just turning a knob and pushing the fight. |
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