The Ancient Olympics (Radio Edit)

古代奥运会(广播编辑)

You're Dead to Me

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2022-10-14

28 分钟
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Greg Jenner and his guests Prof Michael Scott and comedian Shaparak Khorsandi limber up for a trip to the ancient Olympics. Discover the drastic measures taken to prevent women watching the action. Hear how the gruelling challenges brought a whole new meaning to the term "leaving it all on the field" and how even death couldn’t stop you winning. For the full-length verion of this episode, please look further back in the feed.

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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.

  • Listen on BBC Sounds.

  • Hello, Greg here.

  • Just popping in to say that this is a radio edit of the episode, which means it's a bit shorter and some of the naughty stuff has been removed, so it's a bit more appropriate for family listening.

  • If you want to hear the full length versions, scroll down to the original episode further back in our feed.

  • Thanks very much.

  • Enjoy the show.

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  • Hello and welcome to you're dead to me, the history podcast for everyone.

  • My name is Greg Jenner.

  • I am a public historian author, and I'm the chief nerd on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories.