In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined in nineteenth-century England by Dr Michael Taylor and comedian Sara Pascoe to learn all about pioneering palaeontologist Mary Anning. Born to a cabinet-maker father who collected and sold fossils to make extra money, Anning went fossil hunting from a young age. Over the course of her life, she discovered complete ichthyosaur, plesiosaur and pterosaur skeletons, and made great contributions to the emerging discipline of palaeontology. But she was also shut out by the largely male scientific establishment. This episode charts her extraordinary life story, exploring the significance of her discoveries against the background of nineteenth-century debates about religion and science and controversies around the age of the earth. Hosted by: Greg Jenner Research by: Annabel Storr Written by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow, Emma Nagouse, and Greg Jenner Produced by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow and Greg Jenner Audio Producer: Steve Hankey Production Coordinator: Ben Hollands Senior Producer: Emma Nagouse Executive Editor: James Cook
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Hello and welcome to you're dead to me, the radio four comedy podcast that takes history seriously.
My name is Greg Jenner.
I'm a public historian, author and broadcaster.
And today we are chiseling our way back to 19th century Dorset to learn all about pioneering paleontologist Mary anning.
And to help us dig up this story, we have two very special guests in history corner.
He's a historian of the 19th century who has held positions at Balliol College, Oxford and the British Library's Eccles center for American Studies.
You might have read his Orwell Prize nominated book, the interest, how the british establishment resisted the abolition of slavery, or his brilliant new book, impossible Monsters, all about the religious backlash, the discovery of dinosaurs.
It's my fave book of 2024.