Greg and his guests Miles Jupp and Dr Eleanor Janega go back to the medieval Christmas for this one-off festive special. We look at the history and traditions that have thankfully continued through the ages, like gift-giving and stuffed wild boars (although numbers on stuffed wild boar we're told are down from previous years) and some that have mysteriously fallen off from the radar completely, like the masked carol singers and jellied eels. Research - Lloyd Roberts Script- Emma Nagouse and Greg Jenner Project Management - Siefe Miyo Edit Producer - Cornelius Mendez
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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 your dead to me, a BBC Radio four comedy podcast that takes history seriously.
My name is Greg Jenner.
I'm a public historian, author and broadcaster.
And I'm the chief nerd on the BBC Kids show, Horrible Histories.
And as it's the most wonderful time of the year, we are back for a one off, festive special on the merriest of subject matters, medieval Christmas.
And to help us digest this feast of facts about the yuletides of yesteryear, I am joined by two very special guests in history corner.