You're Dead to Me - Announcing Series 9

Episode Date: January 3, 2025

We’re back! Greg Jenner previews the topics and guest coming up in the new series of You're Dead To Me which begins on Friday 3 January, 2025. Listen first on BBC Sounds.

This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. BBC Sounds Music radio podcasts. Hello, Greg here. I am delighted to tell you that series nine of Your Dead to Me is barrelling towards us at great speed. We'll be starting with an episode about Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher. We'll be doing the causes of the British Civil Wars in the 1600s. You might think, hang on, do you mean the English Civil War? No, that's not what we call it now. We've changed the name because it's British.

Ireland and Scotland are involved. We're doing the Arts and Craft movement of the 19th century with William Morris. We're looking at Queen Catherine de Medici of France. She was not entirely Queen, but she basically ruled the place. We're looking also at the abolitionists from America in the 19th century. Sojourner Truth. We are doing Arthurian legends. So King Arthur from medieval to modern day.

I'm very excited about that one because that was my master's thesis when I was a student. We've also looked at Hernan Cortes and his translator, Melincian, and the conquest of Aztec Mexico by the Spanish. We've got an episode on cuneiform writing systems in ancient Bronze Age Mesopotamia. Nerdy, but interesting, I could tell you.

We're also doing the expeditions to the Northwest Passage in the Polar Arctic. Very interesting too. We've done one on the history of coffee. I don't drink coffee but I can tell you the history is a lot better than the actual taste. And we are doing Marco Polo. Everyone loves Marco Polo. In fact hang on, Marco Polo. So that's what you can expect from the show. Loads of jokes, loads of facts, loads of history, great guests. As always it's another series of facts, loads of history, great guests. As always, it's another series of You're Dead to Me. You know what to expect by now.

What else? Oh, episodes will be released on Fridays wherever you get your podcasts. But if you are in the UK, you can listen to the latest episodes 28 days earlier than anywhere else. First on BBC Sounds. And if you do have the BBC Sounds app and you want to be notified as soon as a new episode arrives, please make sure to subscribe to Your Dead to Me on the app and switch on your notifications so you get told when a new episode drops. Otherwise, you're not going to know. Right, that's everything I need to tell you. So yeah, new series on

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