Prohibition in the USA (Radio Edit)

美国的禁令(电台编辑)

You're Dead to Me

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2022-12-31

28 分钟
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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.

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  • 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.

  • 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.