Greg Jenner is joined by Dr Shushma Malik and Ahir Shah as they travel back to Ancient Rome to meet one of history’s biggest names, Julius Caesar. With a name so good his family used it multiple times, for every relative, we follow the rise to power of the man who would one day become Dictator of Rome. You’re Dead To Me is a production by The Athletic for BBC Radio 4. Research by Bethan Davies Written and produced by Emma Nagouse and Greg Jenner Assistant Producer: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow Project Management: Isla Matthews Audio Producer: Abi Paterson
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.
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Hello and welcome to you're dead to me, the radio four comedy podcast that takes history seriously.
My name is Greg Jenner.
I am a public historian, author and broadcaster.
I was the chief nerd on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories.
And today we are venturing back to ancient Rome to learn all about the rise and rise of one of the biggest names in history, the big JC himself.
No, not that one.
We're talking Julius Caesar.
And to help me do that, I'm joined by two very special guests in history corner.
She's a senior lecturer at the University of Roehampton, soon to be joining University of Cambridge, and she's an expert in the politics of imperial Rome, how emperors were depicted, and classical reception studies.