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Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously.

My name is Greg Jenner, I am a public historian, author and broadcaster and I was the chief

nerd on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories.

On this podcast we hook you up with proper history whilst being proper funny and today

we are nipping to the Bureau de Changes and swapping our pound sterling for West Garnay

in Gold Dust and travelling back hundreds of years to learn all about the Ashanti Kingdom.

And to help me do that, I'm joined by two very special guests.

In History Corner he's an art historian and broadcaster and the inaugural director of the

new V&A East Museum as well as the former director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of

African Art in Washington DC.

You may have seen his fascinating BBC series The Lost Kingdoms of Africa, it's Dr. Gus

Kasey Hayford, hi Gus, lovely to have you back.

And in Comedy Corner, she's a fab stand up comedian and writer.

And you'll know her from TVs, mock the week, eight out of ten cats, taskmaster and Frankie

Boyle's new world order and you may have heard her hosting the BBC podcast Obsessed With

I Made Destroy You or on the grown up land podcast, it's Sophie Juka, hi Sophie, thrilled

to have you here.

Hello, it's me.

You're currently in Garnay, you've really taken the research to a new level.

Yeah, I thought that's what we did, I thought it was a sort of magic school bus type thing.

I'm in Garnay, I misunderstood the brief, it was a long commute but now I'm here, I thought

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