The Aztecs (Radio Edit)
You're Dead to Me
BBC
4.7 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Travel back to the land of the Aztecs for stories of sacrifice and fancy diets. Greg Jenner is joined by comedian Joel Dommett and historian Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock to ask just how much food can be traced back to the Aztecs? Was cannibalism really a respectful process? And at what age were Aztec children expected to contribute to the family?
Produced by Dan Morelle Script by Greg Jenner Research by Emma Nagouse assisted by Josh Daniels Radio edit by Cornelius Mendez
A Muddy Knees Media production for BBC Radio 4.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Greg here. How are you? Hope you're well. Right. Good news, first of all, we are busy recording |
| 0:05.4 | series three of your dead to me. Takes a lot of work in fairness, but we are recording a new episode |
| 0:09.6 | this week. And we hope that these series will launch in the early new year just after Christmas. |
| 0:14.4 | That's the plan. So that's exciting. In the meantime, you are possibly aware that we've been playing |
| 0:20.2 | out shorter, swear free versions of your dead to me on radio for on Saturday mornings. So we are |
| 0:26.8 | now putting them into the feed for you to be able to access. They will be here permanently. |
| 0:30.8 | The short versions and the full length versions are going to be in the same feed. So just scroll |
| 0:35.4 | down and you'll see the originals. And these are yet half an hour long. They're a bit less rude. |
| 0:39.9 | And of course, we'll see you after Christmas for the new episodes of series three, which is |
| 0:44.5 | shaping up to be a lot of fun. Anyway, I wish you well. Take care yourselves. And we'll see you in |
| 0:49.9 | the new year. Thank you. Bye. |
| 0:57.8 | Hello and welcome to your dead to me, the history podcast for everyone, for people who don't |
| 1:02.0 | like history, people who do like history, and people who forgot to learn any at school. |
| 1:06.4 | My name is Greg Jenner. I'm a public historian, author and broadcaster, and I'm the chief nerd on |
| 1:11.2 | the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories. You might have heard my other radio four series, |
| 1:15.4 | Home School History, although that one's mostly for the kids. In this show, I'm joined by an expert |
| 1:20.1 | historian with a head full of fascinating facts and an A grade comedian with a smart mouth and |
| 1:25.2 | nice hair. And today we are jumping back 500 years, sharpening our sacrificial knives and |
| 1:30.7 | preparing to eat roast iguana as we get to grips with the Aztecs. Joining me to fill in the blanks |
| 1:36.8 | in your memory banks are two lovely guests. In History Corner, her Twitter account describes her |
| 1:42.0 | as historian and human sacrifice enthusiast. Hopefully that's just a professional thing. She's |
| 1:46.8 | a leading Aztec specialist from the University of Sheffield, is Dr Caroline Dodd's penoc. Hi, Caroline, |
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