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Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, a history podcast for everyone.

For people who don't like history, people who do like history and people who forgot to

learn any at school. My name is Greg Jenner, I am a public historian, author and broadcaster

and I'm the chief nerd on the BBC comedy show Poroble Histories. You might have also

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

On this podcast, we partner up wisdom and wise cracking for a cheery rummage in the

distant past. And today we are packing our Cuneiform tablets and a trusty copy of Astrology

for Dummies as we journey back 4,000 years to learn all about the Babylonian civilization

of ancient Mesopotamia. And to help me tell fascinating facts from historical

hooi, I'm joined by two very special guests. In History Corner, she's a fellow at Wolson

College University of Oxford, specialising in Assyriology and the History of Science,

Medicine and Technology in the Ancient Middle East, it's Dr Moody Al Rashid. Hi Moody,

thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me. And in Comedy Corner, one of the UK's

fastest rising comedy stars, you may have seen his brilliant YouTube special, Curd,

your enthusiasm or you may have seen him on TV shows like Live at the Apollo, Don't

Hate the Players, Jonathan Ross's Comedy Club and the Teso Clock Show. It's the marvelous

K-Curred. Hey K, how are you? I'm good, thanks for having me. This has been a lifelong

dream of mine to be on here, so. Lifelong dream since March. Okay, I mean, I know

you as a brilliant stand up, but you were almost going into medicine, is that right?

Yeah, so I got an offer from a medical school and I just didn't get a grades basically.

That's what happened. Like, in hindsight, thank God because I did a degree in Biomed and

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