Hi everyone, welcome to Dance Noose History. This episode is being broadcast on Christmas

Day 2021. I want to wish, you know, listen to this, a very Merry Christmas, particularly

this one the day itself. I hope you're finding a way to get into Christmas spirit wherever

you are in the world. And this is a kind of a weird podcast that's here by Poppy Lemmon.

My poppy, I mean one or two people have asked for this over the last five years. But tell

my kids a lot of stories about history and some people thought it might be fun if we recorded

one of our storytelling sessions and broadcast it to the world. And so here we go folks, because

Christmas Day is time for families. What could be more Christmas season and a little storytime

with dad? Admittedly not about the most traditionally Christmasy subject, but about a violent

uprising that tore Roman Britain apart in 60 AD. You know it, it's Budica, enjoy.

What story do you want to say guys? Budica! Yeah! Is that one of your faves? Yes. Which

other ones do you like while we're on the side? I want to say twiek. I think Budica's a good

Christmas one isn't it? Oh yeah. Wait, yeah but like then a Christmas one. Okay, there's no,

don't worry about it. It's good to say for any time of year. Yeah. So 2000 years ago,

this island was divided up into lots of small kingdoms. One of them?

Called England. No England wasn't invented yet. England came later. But there was a place that we

now called England was divided into small kingdoms. And one of them was ruled over by a king

called Pressu-Tegas and his wife. Budica! Exactly. And Britain was invaded by the Romans.

Almost 2000 years ago in 34 AD. No, you told it wrong, you were meant to do the bit where you like

there were looking out their window and then one day they saw the

Romans coming. Okay, well hang up the second. Oh, what you mean on the cliff? Okay, we'll go back

to the truth. Okay, well in 34... Daddy's just checking the date. Sorry about this, listeners.

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