Vital Electricity

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Greg Jenner is joined by guests Prof Iwan Rhys Morus and comedian Olga Koch in the 17th century to learn all about "vital electricity". From elaborate party tricks to questionable medicinal claims, we’ll explore the downright bizarre ways that the force of electricity has been harnessed and developed throughout the years. Research by Roxy Moore Written by Emma Nagouse, Roxy Moore and Greg Jenner Produced by Emma Nagouse and Greg Jenner Assistant Producer: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow Project Management: Isla Matthews Audio Producer: Steve Hankey You’re Dead To Me is a production by The Athletic for BBC Radio 4.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Woman's Hour.
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0:12.1	It seems that I'm a threat and they scared all women like me who can say no to this barbaric
0:17.6	regime talking about women's lives.
0:20.1	You're doing what every other girl is doing, just going out at night, having fun and they
0:25.2	again, villainized us for it.
0:26.9	Woman's Hour.
0:27.9	First, on BBC Sounds.
0:36.8	Hello, and welcome to Your Dead To Me, the Radio 4 comedy podcast that takes history seriously.
0:41.6	My name is Greg Jenner, I'm a public historian, author and broadcaster, and today we're
0:45.9	going to rock down to Electric Avenue and then we'll go inquire, which I mean will be
0:50.4	zapped back to the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries in America and Europe to supercharge our knowledge
0:56.4	of the history of electricity or rather the vital electricity to be precise.
1:01.8	And joining me to do that are two live wire guests.
1:04.8	In History Corner, his professor of history at the University of Aberystwyth is an expert
1:08.5	on the history and culture of Victorian science and electricity.
1:12.2	You may have read some of his stimulating research in one of his many books, including Shocking
1:16.2	Bodies, Life, Death and Electricity in Victorian England, his professor, you and Reese Morris.
1:21.8	Welcome you and.
1:22.8	Thanks very much Greg, it's a pleasure to be here.
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