Hello and welcome to Your Dead To Me, the Radio 4 comedy podcast that takes history seriously.
My name is Greg Jenner, I am a public historian,
author and broadcaster and today we are channeling our inner Colin Firth's and emerging soaking wet from the lake of history to bring you a special guide to love and courtship in Georgian Britain to help us navigate this topic with sense and sensibility,
we have two very special guests.
In History Corner,
she's a Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow in History and History of Art at Oxford Brookes University where she studies the history of gender and emotions in 18th and 19th century Britain,
indeed she's the author of the game of love in Georgian England,
courtship, emotions and material culture perfect for us is Dr Sally Holloway.
Welcome Sally.
Thank you very much, I'm happy to be here.
Delighted to have you here.
And in Comedy Corner, she's a comedian, actor, improviser, author and podcaster, a quintuple threat.
You'll know her from the award-winning podcast Griefcast,
which is now a beautiful book and you'll have seen her on all the telly, including public news for you,
QI and what a lie to you, but more importantly,
you'll remember her from our podcast episodes on the European witch craze,
Malleus Maleficaram and Agrippina the Younger.
It's the wonderful Cariad Lloyd.
Welcome back Cariad.
Oh Mr Jenner, what a pleasure it is to finally be invited to your salon.