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 radio four comedy podcast that takes history seriously.
My name is Greg Jenner.
I'm a public historian, author and broadcaster.
I was the chief nerd on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories.
And today we are packing our bags and fixing our eyes on the horizon to follow in the footsteps of globetrotting medieval moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta.
And joining me on this epic journey are two very special guests in history corner.
She's professor in the history and culture of the Maghrib in the faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge.
She's written extensively on the Islamic Middle East, Africa and Spain.