2025-08-09
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Hello and welcome to You're 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 plucking our brows and caking our faces with lead
as we learn all about the history of beauty in Renaissance Italy.
And to help us with our makeover,
we have two very special visitors to the You're Dead To Me salon in History Corner.
She's professor of Renaissance visual and material cultures at the University of Edinburgh,