The Ancient Olympics
You're Dead to Me
BBC
4.7 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Greg Jenner and his guests Professor Michael Scott and comedian Shaparak Khorsandi limber up for a trip to the ancient Olympics.
Discover the drastic measures taken to prevent women watching the action. Hear how the gruelling challenges brought a whole new meaning to the term "leaving it all on the field" and how even death couldn’t stop you winning.
A Muddy Knees Media production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:05.9 | Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, a history podcast for people who... |
| 0:09.1 | ...wad to stone my history. |
| 0:10.9 | Or at least people who forgot to learn any at school. |
| 0:13.0 | My name is Greg Jenner, I'm a public historian, author, and I'm the chief nerd on the BBC |
| 0:17.1 | comedy show Horrible Histories. |
| 0:19.0 | If you haven't listened before, this podcast is all about mashing together first class |
| 0:22.1 | history and comedy gold for a winning combination of learning and roles. |
| 0:26.2 | Now, it's 2020. |
| 0:28.6 | It's an Olympic year, so today we are donning our light-cruff, wrapping ourselves in the |
| 0:32.4 | flag and lighting our fancy torches, as we get to grips with the history of the Olympics. |
| 0:37.2 | But none of your journey come lately in modern stuff. |
| 0:39.2 | No, no, no, no. |
| 0:40.2 | We are journeying back, all the way back, to Ancient Greece, to cheer on our favourite local |
| 0:44.5 | legends at the original Olympic Games. |
| 0:46.8 | That's right, we're chatting the OG OGs. |
| 0:49.8 | And to help me do that, I'm joined by two returning champions. |
| 0:53.2 | Previous guests on your Dead To Me. |
| 0:55.1 | In History Corner, he is a class assistant from the University of Warwick, an author, a BBC |
| 0:59.2 | broadcaster. |
| 1:00.2 | You may know him from his amazing documentary series Invisible Cities, or hopefully from |
| 1:03.4 | his smashing appearance on the Spartan's episode of Your Dead To Me, available on BBC |
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