Greg Jenner and his guests look at a range of scientific discoveries spanning 1000 years of history, widely known as the medieval period. How were knowledge and scientific findings shared across a world with its countless languages and regions before the internet? Greg is joined by Dr Seb Falk and comedian Josie Long to look at some of the weird and wonderful advancements of the period which we still use today. For the full-length version of this episode, please look further back in the feed. Research by Rosanna Evans Script by Emma Nagouse, Rosanna Evans and Greg Jenner Project manager: Siefe Miyo Edit producer: Cornelius Mendez
My name's Joe Wilkinson and I've managed to force Patrick Bamford to come on a podcast with me and he's gonna slowly fall in love with me.
Do you go to the tip?
Believe it or not, yeah, I do.
Do you go to the supermarket?
No.
You know when all the shirts started getting tight on the players and they started selling them like that to the general public?
Yeah, yeah.
And everyone looked like sausages.
My mate's a footballer with me, Patrick Bamford and Joe Wilkinson.
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Hello and welcome to you're dead to me, a BBC Radio four comedy podcast that takes history seriously.
My name is Greg Jenner.
I'm a public historian, author and broadcaster.
I'm the chief nerd on the funny kids show, horrible Histories.
Today, we are packing our sundials, star maps and astrolabes as we travel back many centuries to learn all about medieval science.
And to do that, I'm joined by two very special guests in history corner.
He's a historian of medieval science and is an expert in the history of astronomy, navigation and mathematics.
He teaches at the University of Cambridge and his fascinating book, the Light Ages, was a Times and telegraph book of the year.
In 2020, he's a BBC new generation thinker.