Host Greg Jenner is joined by Dr Corin Throsby and Comedian Ed Gamble to look at the role and development of vampire characters throughout 19th century Gothic literature and its continuing effect on pop culture today. Which vampire character is based on infamous bad boy Lord Byron? Who was the first vampire character to have fangs? And in case you ever need to know, just how many ways are there to kill a vampire?
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 history podcast for everyone, for people who don't like history, people who do like history, and people who forgot to learn any at school.
My name is Greg Jenner.
I'm a public historian, author and broadcaster.
I'm the chief nerd on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories.
And you might have heard my other podcast, homeschool history, but that one's mostly for the kids.
On this podcast, we're all about finding the geeky giggles with our signature blend of comedians and brainiacs.
And today we are sinking our teeth into the gorgeously gothic explosion of vampire literature in 19th century Europe.
Yummy.
And to do that, I'm joined by two very special guests in history corner.