The History of Football (Radio Edit)
You're Dead to Me
BBC
4.7 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Where did football come from? Was it really invented in China or is the truth a little closer to home? And what’s the truth behind the history of the women’s game? Greg Jenner is joined by comedian Tom Parry and historian Prof Jean Williams to learn the history of the beautiful game.
Produced by Dan Morelle Scripted by Greg Jenner Researched by Emma Nagouse, assisted by Eszter Szabo and Evie Randall Radio edit by Cornelius Mendez
A Muddy Knees Media production for BBC Radio 4.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey up Greg here, how you doing alright? |
| 0:02.4 | We are making Series 3 right now. |
| 0:04.2 | In the meantime we've been making these radio 4 versions of the previous episode. |
| 0:08.3 | We are putting them in the feed here permanently, they will be alongside the long versions. |
| 0:12.5 | So make sure you scroll down and choose which version you want. |
| 0:15.6 | So you can have the shorter, punchier, swear free versions or the long rambling sweary versions |
| 0:21.2 | up to you. |
| 0:22.2 | Thanks for listening, take care, bye. |
| 0:47.5 | For more series, home school history, although that's for the kids. |
| 0:59.0 | Join me in History Corner, it's a professor of football. |
| 1:18.5 | From the University of Wolverhampton, it's Professor Jean Williams. |
| 1:21.7 | Hi Jean, thank you for coming. |
| 1:23.4 | You are a specialist on the history of football, but specifically the women's game. |
| 1:27.2 | How did you get into it? |
| 1:28.2 | I was playing football and needing a PhD to work at a university. |
| 1:34.1 | So I put together the things that I love, which was history and women's football. |
| 1:39.5 | Pretty good room, can't blame on that. |
| 1:41.4 | And in Comedy Corner, he's the pride of Wolverhampton, one of the members of the legendary |
| 1:44.3 | sketch group, Pappies, co-host of Pappies, FlatShare podcast, multiple Edinburgh, |
| 1:48.3 | Fringe award nominee, writer director, powerful boxer, boxing midfielder. |
| 1:52.8 | It's Tom Perry. |
| 1:53.8 | That last one, that's what really matters to me. |
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