Greg Jenner is joined by historian Prof Michael Scott and comedian Shappi Khorsandi in 480 BCE for one of history’s most notorious naval battles - The Battle of Salamis. On their journey through the events leading up to the battle and beyond, they hear about one of the most unusual methods used to cross a body of water and discover why sometimes it pays to give water a jolly good telling off.
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, the history podcast for everyone.
My name is Greg Jenner.
I'm a public historian author, and I'm the chief nerd on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories.
And you may have heard my other radio four show, homeschool history, although that one's mostly for the kids in this show.
Well, we do things a bit differently.
This podcast is all about mushing together top quality history and top draw bants for a frivolously factual good time.
Today we are climbing aboard our triremes.
That's ancient warships.
More on that later.