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 everyone.
For people who don't like history, people who do like history, and for people who forgot to learn any at school.
My name is Greg Jenner.
I'm a public historian, author and broadcaster, and I'm the chief nerd on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories.
If you are a new recruit on the good ship, you're dead to me.
This podcast is all about getting funny people and facty people to row together in powerful unison.
And today we are climbing aboard our triremes, setting our watches for 480 bce and setting sail for the Mediterranean to get to grips with one of history's most notorious naval battles, the battle of Salamis.
And to help me do that, I'm joined by a returning crew of salty sea dogs, both of them on their third voyage with us in history corner, he's a classicist from the University of Warwick, an author, tv broadcaster, the man who puts the pro in professor.
He's already talked us through the Spartans and the ancient Olympics, both of them available on BBC sounds.