Greg Jenner is joined by historian Prof Sarah Churchwell and comedian Kemah Bob in 1920s USA to follow the implementation and after-effects of Prohibition. They take a look at the origins of the Prohibition laws and hear how a movement designed to encourage temperance backfired on the nation. For the full-length version of this episode, please look further back in the feed. Produced by Cornelius Mendez Script by Greg Jenner and Emma Nagouse Research by Tim Galsworthy A production by The Athletic for BBC Radio 4.
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.
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Hello and welcome to you're dead to me.
My name is Greg Jenner.
I'm a public historian, author and broadcaster.
And I'm the chief nerd on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories.
On this podcast, we serve up a refreshing cocktail of laughs and facts that won't leave you with a hangover the next morning.
And today we are journeying back to the 1920s and early thirties to learn all about the prohibition era in the United States of America.
And to help me distill fact from fiction, I'm joined by two very special guests in history corner.
She's chair of public understanding of the humanities at the University of London School of Advanced Study.