Forget Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Justinian and Theodora were the power couple of the Byzantine era. From withstanding riots to protecting women’s rights, how did a woman from such humble beginnings (and who did *that* with a swan…) fall in love with one of the most powerful men of the time and secure her place in the history books? Join public historian Greg Jenner, comedian Shappi Khorsandi and historian Prof Peter Frankopan.
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, well, just don't like history, really.
Or at least people who forgot to learn any at school.
My name is Greg Jenner.
I'm a public historian author, and I am the chief nerd on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories.
I spend my days ladling massive dollops of history into people's ears like some sort of maverick Canteen worker.
So how does this podcast work?