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Introducing... Dead Funny History

12/13/2025 • 1 min

Attention kids of all ages! Greg Jenner introduces his brand-new comedy history show for all the family. From Ramesses the Great to the History of Football, the team behind You're Dead to Me serves up a smorgasbord of the funniest, messiest, and most astonishing stories from history. Expect pirates, spies, superstars, chariot races, bouncing cats, ancient toilet… Play episode

Jane Austen (Radio Edit)
India Between Empires (Radio Edit)
Renaissance Beauty (Radio Edit)
Viking Women (Radio Edit)
Kellogg Brothers (Radio Edit)
Alexandre Dumas (Radio Edit)
Empress Matilda (Radio Edit)
American War of Independence (Radio Edit)
Early Medieval Papacy (Radio Edit)
The Columbian Exchange (Radio Edit)
Jane Austen: the life of a Regency literary icon
Marie Antoinette: last French queen before the Revolution
Hannibal of Carthage: fearsome enemy of ancient Rome
Alexandria: city of knowledge and culture
India between empires: the long 18th century
Renaissance Beauty: hair, makeup and skincare in the 16th century
Viking Women: wives, weavers and warriors
Kellogg Brothers: a family feud and the creation of a cereal empire
Alexandre Dumas: author of The Three Musketeers
Empress Matilda: civil war in medieval England
Marco Polo (Radio Edit)
History of Coffee (Radio Edit)
American War of Independence: Fourth of July Special
Arctic Exploration (Radio Edit)
Cuneiform (Radio Edit)
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin (Radio Edit)
Legends of King Arthur (Radio Edit)
Sojourner Truth (Radio Edit)
Catherine de’ Medici (Radio Edit)
The Arts and Crafts Movement (Radio Edit)
Causes of the British Civil Wars (Radio Edit)
Aristotle (Radio Edit)
The Indus Civilisation (Radio Edit)
Georgian Courtship (Radio Edit)
Marco Polo: history’s most famous travel writer?
History of Coffee: from devil’s brew to our favourite beverage
Arctic Exploration: the fatal quest for the Northwest Passage
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico
Legends of King Arthur: from medieval literature to modern myth
Sojourner Truth: American abolitionist, suffragist, preacher
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France
The Arts and Crafts Movement: William Morris and his circle
Causes of the British Civil Wars: Royalists versus Parliamentarians
Aristotle: Ancient Greece’s greatest philosopher?
Happy Christmas from Greg and the team!
History of Broadway (Radio Edit)
Leif Erikson (Radio Edit)
Palaeolithic Cave Art (Radio Edit)

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