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

My name is Greg Jenner, I make public historian author and broadcaster and I'm the chief nerd

on the BBC Kids Show Horrible Histories.

And today we are setting course for 18th century China for the Qing Dynasty to be exact,

to Parle with Zhong Yi Cao, the most successful pirate of all time.

And to help me do that, I'm joined by two very special crewmates.

And in history corner, he's associate professor at the London School of Economics, an expert

in late Imperial China and is a specialist in maritime and global studies.

Indeed he's the author of Blue Frontier, Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire,

his professor Ronald Poe.

Ahoy, how are you?

Hi Greg.

Thanks very much for having me here today.

I'm very excited about his podcast.

And in the crow's nest of comedy corner, she's a sensational comedian, writer, actor,

and actual proper scientist with a PhD.

You will have seen her on BBC Live at the Apollo, mocked the week, question team on Dave,

Stephspacked lunch on Channel 4, plus loads of BBC radio shows.

It's the brilliant, real-e-no.

Welcome, real.

Hello, thank you so much for having me on this one.

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