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.
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, 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.
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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.