Greg Jenner and his guests examine the life of Sake Dean Mahomed who introduced curry, shampooing and therapeutic massage to 19th-century England. He grew up under colonial rule, but Sake Dean Mahomed ended up living in Brighton until the age of 92 and counted members of the Royal Family among his many clients. Greg's guests in this episode are Dr Arunima Datta from Idaho State University and the comedian and podcast host Eshaan Akbar. Script: Emma Nagouse, Chris Wakefield and Greg Jenner Research: Chris Wakefield Project manager: Siefe Miyo Edit producer: Cornelius Mendez
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, 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 funny kids tv show Horrible Histories.
And today we are donning our fluffy bathrobes and getting a relaxing historical herbal head massage as we explore the luxurious life of the indian innovator and shampooist extraordinaire, Sheikh Dean Muhammad.
And joining me in our biographical bathhouse are two very special guests in history corner.
She's assistant professor of south and southeast asian history and the history of the British Empire at Idaho State University.
She specialises in the movement of south and southeast asian people in the 19th and 20th century in the empire and is the author of the recent book Fleeting Agencies, a social history of indian coolie women in British Malaya.
She's also written about the history of Curry.