The Inca Empire

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined by Professor Bill Sillar and comedian Sue Perkins to learn all about the South American Inca empire. At their height, the Inca controlled a vast territory from their base in Peru, one that stretched down the mountainous west coast of the continent, from Ecuador all the way down to Argentina. But the empire barely lasted for a century. Beginning in the mid-fifteenth century, it fell in the 1530s with the arrival of Spanish conquistadores, led by Pizarro. This episode goes beyond famous sites like Machu Picchu and explores all aspects of Inca life, death – and taxes! Along the way, it takes in social and family structures, food and drink, religious practices, art and architecture.

Research by: Andrew Himmelberg Written by: Andrew Himmelberg, Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow, Emma Nagouse and Greg Jenner Produced by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow and Greg Jenner Audio Producer: Steve Hankey Production Coordinator: Caitlin Hobbs Senior Producer: Emma Nagouse

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0:40.0	Hello and welcome to You're Dead to Me, the Radio 4 comedy podcast that takes history seriously.
0:46.2	My name is Greg Jenner. I'm a public historian author and broadcaster, and today we are loading up our lamas
0:51.2	and doing the Machu Pichu Trail to learn all about the Inca Empire and to help
0:55.3	us we have two very special guests in Archaeology Corner. His professor at the Institute of Archaeology
1:00.2	at University College London where much of his research focuses on the
1:03.5	archaeology of the indigenous peoples of the Andes before, during and after the Inca
1:07.8	Empire is Professor Bill Ciller. Welcome Bill. Well thank you very much for inviting
1:11.4	me, looking forward to it. Yeah, lovely to have you here.
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