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Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, the Radio 4 comedy podcast that takes history seriously.

My name is Greg Jenner, I'm a public historian author and broadcaster.

And today we are channeling our inner codenfers and emerging soaking wet from the lake of history

to bring you a special Valentine's Day guide to love and courtship in Georgian Britain.

And to help us navigate this topic with sense and sensibility we have two very special guests.

In History Corner, she's a vice-chancellor's research fellow in history and history of art,

Oxford Brooks University where she studies the history of gender and emotions in 18th and 19th

century Britain. Indeed she's the author of the Game of Love in Georgian England, courtship,

emotions and material culture perfect for us is Dr Sally Holloway, welcome Sally.

Thank you very much, I'm happy to be here.

Delighted to have you here. And in Comedy Corner, she's a comedian, actor, improviser, author

and podcaster, a quintuple threat. You'll know her from the award-winning podcaster's grief cast,

which is now a beautiful book and you'll have seen her on all the tally, including Kevin News for you,

QI and would I lie to you but more importantly you'll remember her from our podcaster episodes

on the European Witch Crays, Malias Maleficaram and Agrappina the Younger. It's the wonderful

Carried Lloyd, welcome back Carried. Oh Mr Jenna, what a pleasure it is to finally be invited to your salon.

Oh I blush indeed, my countenance is not so fair and to meet Miss Sally as well,

whose work I have admired from afar I must confess, it is more than one could last for in such a

fine and temperate morning. Oh I'm so excited. We're fully committed. Yes she is also a member of Jane

Austin in pop show, ostentatious and would speak like that at any opportunity. I was going to say

this is a reflex for you right. I mean ostentatious, brilliant improv comedy troupe where you

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