Greg Jenner and his guests travel back to 17th-century England to meet a celebrity of the Restoration era. As was one of the first actresses in comedy and a mistress to King Charles II, Nell Gwyn's life was as eventful as her turns on the stage. Greg is joined by associate professor and writer, Diana Solomon and by comedian, actor and writer, Jess Knappett. For the full-length version of this episode, please look further back in the feed. Script by Emma Nagouse and Greg Jenner Research by William Clayton Produced by 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.
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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 am a public historian, author and broadcaster.
I'm the chief nerd on the funny kids show, Horrible Histories.
And today we are packing our theatre programs and interval snacks to travel all the way back to the 17th century to England to learn all about the actress, queen of comedy and mistress to King Charles II.
It's Nell Gwynne.
And to do that, I'm joined by two very special guests in history corner.