Hello everybody, welcome to Dance No Sisteri. Today is the beginning of the Easter weekend

here in the UK. Everyone's chilling out. Everyone's in the garden shivering. As people do

those time-hallowed British things, you might like to listen to this episode of Dance

No Sisteri, which is a rerun that's one of our most popular episodes ever. We talked

to Francesca Stavracapolo about the Bible about Easter. She's a professor of Hebrew Bible

of ancient religion at Xt University. She's known as the atheist who loves the Bible, and

she is on to talk all about where Easter came from. The myth. You all heard the myth

that there was some pagan deity called something like Easter. Well, it's not true. As Francesca

will tell you. I hope everyone enjoys this podcast as much as people do the first time

around. It broke all our records years ago when we first recorded this and broadcast

it. If you want to go back and listen to some deep, deep history, the archive of Dance

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of podcasts. They're all there. Go and wallow in them. Binge them all this Easter weekend.

But in the meantime, enjoy Francesca Stavracapolo.

Hello, Professor, how are you?

Hi, I'm very well. Thank you. Thank you for that amazing introduction.

Well, I mean, it's the least I can do.

Well, I've been a master. You are the master of all you cheveille.

And today we are surveying Easter. Yes.

Which moves around, which we can discuss later. I've never really understood that. But

people get very excited about Easter. Let me briefly say, because it's hard in modern

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