The Black Death: everything you wanted to know

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🗓️ 31 January 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Professor John Hatcher answers listener questions about the medieval pandemic, and reflects on how the Covid-19 crisis might shape our understanding of the plague Professor John Hatcher, author of The Black Death: A Personal History, responds to listener questions and internet search queries about the medieval pandemic that ravaged 14th-century Europe. He also reflects on how the current Covid-19 crisis might shape our understanding of the Black Death. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:51.3	I'm Ellie Cawthorne.
0:57.5	Today we have another episode in our Everything You Wanted to Know series.
1:02.3	Will we put your questions to a leading expert?
1:05.5	This time we're speaking about the Black Death with Professor John Hatcher.
1:10.0	Putting your questions to John
1:11.4	on the medieval plague was our content director, David Musgrove. Right. Today I'm joined by John
1:18.8	Hatcher, who is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Cambridge
1:22.6	and author of The Black Death and Intimate History. So today, as always with our Everything You Want to Know podcast,
1:30.3	we've asked you the audience to submit questions on an interesting topic,
1:34.3	and the topic today is The Black Death, so thank you for your questions.
1:37.3	And we will jump straight in.
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