Greg Jenner is joined by the brilliant comedian Tim Minchin and Palaeolithic archaeologist Dr Becky Wragg Sykes as they take us way back in time to visit the mysterious world of Neanderthals. Just who were the Neanderthals? Were they the squat caveman archetypes we’ve come to know in pop culture? Did they really shout “Ug” at the moon? Or have we misunderstood them entirely? Join the team as we discover there is so much more to those handsome, hench beings that walked the Earth before us.
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 people who just don't like history, or at least people who forgot to learn any at school.
My name is Greg Jenner.
I'm a public historian, author, and I'm the chief nerd on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories.
On this podcast, we mix learning with lols for a luxury listening experience.
Today, we are journeying back tens of thousands of years to hunt hyena, ride on mammoths and get to know neanderthals, the sexiest species of archaic humans this side of Eurasia.
And guiding us on our hunting trip, we're joined by two very special guests in prehistory corner.
Yes, prehistory corner.
She's a paleolithic archaeologist who is an expert in prehistoric tools and she is the author of a brilliant new book all about neanderthals.