Hello, I've just nipped in before your BBC podcast starts to tell you all about

You're Dead to Me. We're the comedy podcast that takes history seriously, also from the BBC

and presented by me, Greg Jenner. I should have told you that at the beginning, sorry.

Anyway, like many other BBC podcasts, such as Desert Island Discs, Evil Genius, or In Our Time,

your Dead to Me is available first on BBC Sounds, a whole month earlier than anywhere

else in fact. So if you can't wait another day to hear the very latest in history and loads

of other good stuff, then listen first on BBC Sounds. People have been eating out in restaurants

and bars for hundreds of years and some of those early establishments are still open today.

This is the food chain

from the BBC World Service

with me Ruth Alexander

and this week we're meeting the people

running some of the world's oldest restaurants.

When so many clothes

within the first year or two of opening,

what's the secret to centuries-old success?

People like a story and people like antiquity.

And if you marry the two together, that can also lead to customers.

They want to consume a power of history.

We'll hear about the personal battles to keep the doors open.

I just, I couldn't let it go.

The sheer cost it can involve.

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