The Queen of Sheba (Radio Edit)

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Greg Jenner is joined by Dr Jillian Stinchcomb and comedian Sadia Azmat to learn all about the legendary Queen of Sheba. From her first appearance in the Hebrew Bible, the Queen of Sheba has fascinated Jewish, Muslim and Christian writers. But do we know anything about her as a historical figure? And how has her story been told, used and reinterpreted throughout history? This episode traces the legends written about the Queen of Sheba across Europe, Africa and the Middle East from 600 BCE to today, exploring the ambiguous and contradictory depictions of her as a wise and powerful ruler, an exoticised and seductive woman, the founding member of an Ethiopian royal dynasty, and a possible half-demon!

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Research by: Jon Mason Written by: Jon Mason, Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow, Emma Nagouse and Greg Jenner Produced by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow and Greg Jenner Audio Producer: Steve Hankey Senior Producer: Emma Nagouse

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0:00.0	I'm Cardiff born Cardiff Bread and when I dies I'll be Cardiff Dead.
0:05.0	I'm Charlotte Church and this is my family.
0:09.0	As we get to the pub, your mama falls into the bush.
0:12.0	The teddy is going,
0:13.0	Moining his photographer is wrong.
0:15.0	Get at!
0:16.0	Listening on intimate and special conversations.
0:19.0	When you were three months old,
0:21.0	I probably had a slice of bread a day. I got through it because of you.
0:24.5	But the people I love the most. Tomorrow never comes.
0:27.5	Yesterday's past. The only time you've actually got is today.
0:31.4	Kicking back with the cat if he ends.
0:33.0	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:35.0	BBC Sounds.
0:37.0	Music Radio Podcasts.
0:40.0	Hello and welcome to your dead to me the Radio 4 comedy podcast that takes history
0:46.4	seriously my name is Greg Jenner I'm a public historian author and broadcaster and
0:50.8	today we are tracking all the way back to ancient Yemen or is it Ethiopia
0:54.9	To learn all about the wealth, wisdom and womanly wiles of the legendary Queen of
0:59.6	Sheba and to help us we have two very special guests.
1:03.0	In History Corner, she's a research associate at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
1:08.0	She specializes in religious biblical and Jewish studies,
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