The Indus Civilisation (Radio Edit)

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Greg Jenner is joined by guests Dr Danika Parikh and comedian Ahir Shah in the Bronze Age to explore the ancient Indus civilisation. They take a close look at the terracotta, toilets and even the unicorns of this vast civilisation which was in existence some 2,000 years before Pompeii.

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Research by: Aimee Hinds Scott Written by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow, Aimee Hinds Scott and Greg Jenner Produced by: Emma Nagouse and Greg Jenner Assistant Producer: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow Project Management: Isla Matthews Audio Producer: Steve Hankey Executive Editor: Philip Sellars

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0:41.1	Hello and welcome to You're Dead to Me, the Radio 4 comedy podcast that takes history seriously.
0:46.3	My name is Greg Jenner.
0:47.5	I'm a public historian author and broadcaster.
0:49.7	And today we are jumping back to the Bronze Age and sailing down the Indus River
0:53.5	to learn all about
0:54.4	the archaeology of toilets, terracotta, ornaments and even unicorns.
0:58.7	Yes, it's the Indus Civilisation and to help us excavate this buried history, we have
1:03.6	two very special guests.
1:05.4	In History slash Archaeology Corner, she's a postdoctoral fellow at University of Cambridge
1:09.5	Museums and Postdoctoral Research
1:11.0	Associate at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Her research includes the archaeology of the
1:15.0	Indus Civilisation of South Asia, as well as Empire and Race in Museum collections. And she's a founding
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