The Mayflower
You're Dead to Me
BBC
4.7 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Greg Jenner is joined by historian Dr Misha Ewen and comedian Alex Edelman to take a trip back in time and across the Atlantic with the passengers of The Mayflower.
They ask all the most pertinent questions. What would you pack for a journey to a new world? What’s a great name for a baby born at sea? And just why is a journey that was objectively a gigantic failure held in such high regard in American culture?
A Muddy Knees Media production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, a history podcast for people who don't like history |
| 0:10.0 | or at least people who got to learn in the art school. |
| 0:11.7 | My name is Greg Jenner, I'm a public historian author and I'm the chief nerd on the BBC |
| 0:15.4 | comedy show Horrible History. |
| 0:17.2 | This podcast navigates the murky waters of the past using facts and giggles as our |
| 0:21.2 | map and compass. |
| 0:22.2 | And today we are packing our bags and setting sail for the new world. |
| 0:25.7 | That's right, we are venturing back exactly 400 years to 1620 and climbing aboard the |
| 0:31.0 | Mayflower, the ship that carried the first English colonists to America. |
| 0:35.4 | And to help me do that, I am joined by two very special guests in History Corner. |
| 0:38.9 | She's a Hallsworth research fellow at the University of Manchester and an expert on the |
| 0:42.8 | social and economic history of the early modern Atlantic world. |
| 0:46.3 | It's Dr. Misha Youin, hi Misha, thanks for coming. |
| 0:48.3 | Hello, thanks for the invitation. |
| 0:49.3 | It's great to be here. |
| 0:50.3 | It's good to have you. |
| 0:51.3 | And in Comedy Corner, he's a comedian and writer, one of a few Americans to win best |
| 0:54.9 | newcomer at the 2014 Edinburgh French Festival. |
| 0:57.3 | And then return with the best reviewed show of 2018. |
| 1:00.3 | He's been on live at the Apollo, live at the BBC, roast battle. |
| 1:03.2 | He's the host of Alex Edelman's peer group and radio for which sort of gives away his |
| 1:06.0 | name really. |
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