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Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, the Radio 4 comedy podcast that takes history

seriously. My name is Greg Jenner, I'm a public

historian author and broadcaster and I'm the former chief nerd on the BBC comedy show Horrible

Histories. And today we are coming to you live from the hay festival in Wales, meaning

for the first time ever. Let's say this. Hello audience.

You're lost aren't you, you're looking for the toilets.

They're over there. Fine. Thank you so much for coming.

We're hoping that by the end of this we all have acquired more fans and that is very much

what we're talking about today. fandom is the crucial word because with today we are

jumping back three centuries to learn all about the history of cultural fandom. That's

books, theatre, music, but not sport because it's a hay festival and Frankie, yeah we're

not doing sport here. Johnny May and our lovely audience in this extremely

glamorous tent are two very special guests in history corner. She's a writer, broadcaster

and academic who teaches at the University of Cambridge, that's one of the best ones.

She's an expert in romantic literature and early celebrity culture. She's a BBC new

generation thinker and this is her fifth stint on the show making her, I think the longest

serving historian. She's already tackled Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Gothic fanpile literature

and Mary Walst and Kraft. We're officially super fans. It's the marvellous Doctor

Corinne for Osby. Welcome back Corinne. Thank you so much. The restraining orders in the

mail, Greg. And in comedy corner, another stalwart star of the show making his fourth appearance.

He is the sensational stand up and podcast host. I am a full on fanboy of his podcast, the

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