Hello, I'm Greg Jenner. I'm the host of Your Dead to Me, where the best names in comedy and history

join me to learn about and laugh at the past. You are a traitor. And in the new series, we'll meet

Aristotle. I think he might have been a time traveller. Someone who's like almost a glitch.

We'll dive into the causes of the British Civil Wars in the 1600s. In England at this period,

there's people can't get on the housing ladder.

This sounds familiar. And we'll discover the arts and crafts movement. I love the clothes. I love

the vibe. Yes, we're a comedy show that takes history seriously and then laughs at it. You're dead to me.

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Hello and welcome.

When we want to know a little bit more about ourselves,

we tend to look back to the people and places that made us.

But what happens if we do that and find ourselves in a tangle of secrets and lies?

And when we try to unravel that and discover

things that shake us to the core, how does that change the way we see our parents, our life,

ourselves? Meet Joe Jaquist Oten. He's a musician. He's a professional singer and he's here. Hi, Joe. Hi, how you doing?

Very well. Nice to see you. You grew up in Wolverhampton. You were an only child.

Yeah. Tell us a little bit more about that childhood. So you've got a mum sue, dad Peter.

So, yeah, I grew up in Wolverhampton in the 90s. I was pretty happy doing my own thing. I was an

independent kid, but I just always wanted to be exploring more of the world, basically. I think I

ordered all my university prospectuses when I was about 12. I started working out where I wanted to go,

because I just wanted to get out. But I had a great time in Wolverhampton,

but I was ready to leave when I did. And your mum and dad lived apart, right? But they shared the

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