Mary Seacole

玛丽·西科尔

You're Dead to Me

2021-11-05

53 分钟
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Greg Jenner is joined by Prof Gretchen Gerzina and comedian Nathan Caton to delve into the extraordinary life and adventures of the 19th-century celebrity, Mary Seacole. Mary was born and raised in Jamaica and rose to fame as a businesswoman and a volunteer nurse during the Crimean War. The episode explores her childhood of practising healing techniques on her pets, the perils of Panama, her experience of cholera, how she dealt with racists, the risks of running a business in a warzone and why she loved being famous. Research: Hannah McKenzie Script: Emma Nagouse and Greg Jenner Project management: Siefe Miyo Edit producer: Cornelius Mendez
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  • 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 from Radio Four, a comedy podcast that takes history seriously.

  • My name is Greg Jenner.

  • I am a public historian, author and broadcaster.

  • And I'm the chief nerd on the funny kids tv show horrible histories.

  • And today we are jumping back to the 19th century to travel the world and tend to the sick and injured with the extraordinary businesswoman, traveler and healer Mary Seacole.

  • And to help me do that, I am joined by two very special guests in history corner.

  • She's the Paul Murray Kendall chair in biography and professor of English at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

  • She's a renowned expert on the biographies of 19th century black people in the UK and USA and on interracial relationships.