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Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, a BBC Radio 4 history podcast for everyone, for

people who don't like history, do like history or people who forgot to learn any at school.

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

on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories.

You may have heard my other podcast Home School History, but that one's mostly for the kids.

This podcast is a bit different, it blends the swing time groove of historical facts, with

the improvised toot of the comedy horn.

And for the last five episodes of series three, we're going to do things a little differently.

I think you've all noticed there's been a bit of drama across the Atlantic Ocean these

past few years, so we'll be exploring five big subjects from American history.

Next time out we'll be looking at how the nation broke away from British rule, boo!

And then try to figure out what the hell it was to be American anyway.

But today we're going to be jumping back a century and bawling at a 1920s party to get

grips with the Harlem Renaissance.

And joining me are two of the coolest cats on the block.

In History Corner she's a cultural historian and literary scholar with a PhD from Yale,

and she's the author of Black Is the Body, Stories from My Mother's Time and Mine, which

won the 2020 LA Times Prize for Autobiographical Pros.

She's also written and acclaimed book about the letters of Langston Hughes and Carls Van

Vecten, we'll hear about more of them later, and she's written essays for the Oprah

magazine Harper's New Republic and the New Yorker.

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