The History of Football
You're Dead to Me
BBC
4.7 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2019
⏱️ 46 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?
Why was knife crime such a problem for football hundreds of years ago? And what’s the real truth behind the history of the women’s game?
Public historian Greg Jenner joins comedian Tom Parry and historian Professor Jean Williams to teach you the true history of the beautiful game. It’s history for people who don’t like history!
Produced by Dan Morelle Scripted by Greg Jenner Researched by Emma Nagouse, assisted by Eszter Szabo and Evie Randall
A Muddy Knees Media production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.4 | Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, a history podcast for people who don't like history |
| 0:11.0 | or release people who forgot to learn any at school. |
| 0:13.0 | My name is Greg Jenner, I'm a public historian, author and I'm the chief nerd on the BBC |
| 0:16.9 | comedy show Horrible Histories. |
| 0:18.5 | I put the lulls in the lullards. |
| 0:20.1 | Alright, just look them up, alright, Google it, you'll find it. |
| 0:23.3 | In each episode I'm joined by an expert historian who knows their clock from their cop and |
| 0:26.9 | a top comedian with more creative, flair than David Silver. |
| 0:29.7 | Today we are rolling down our socks, popping our collars and launching a two-footed |
| 0:33.1 | cantonar lunge into the face of the history of football. |
| 0:36.4 | Joining me in history corner is a professor of football. |
| 0:38.9 | No, it's not us and Venga. |
| 0:40.4 | She's an expert on how to put the influences culture, the history of the game and she specialises |
| 0:44.4 | in the story of women's football. |
| 0:45.4 | She's from the University of Wolverhampton, it's professor Jean Williams, hi Jean. |
| 0:48.5 | Hi there. |
| 0:49.5 | Thank you for coming. |
| 0:50.5 | You are a specialist on the history of football but specifically women's football. |
| 0:54.4 | How do you get into it? |
| 0:55.4 | What was the root? |
| 0:56.5 | The root was playing football and needing a PhD to work at a university so I put together |
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