Hello and welcome to You're Dead To Me, the Radio 4 comedy podcast that takes history seriously.
My name is Greg Jenner.
I'm a public historian,
author and broadcaster and today we are packing our travel guides and venturing back over 2,000 years
as we trek all the way to Egypt to trace the cultural and intellectual history of the city of Alexandria.
And to help me do that I'm joined by two very special guests in History Corner.
He's a multi-award winning author, broadcaster, curator and academic,
he's a professor of literature and history at Birmingham City University and an expert in the cultural history of the Middle East.
He's also the author of the award-winning book Alexandria, The City That Changed the World.
It's a brilliant book.
I highly recommend it.
It's Professor Islam Issa.
Welcome Islam.
Thank you.
I'm excited and a little confused why we're not doing this recording in Alexandria.
The budget in quite stretch.
Sorry, Athena.
All the money was spent on me.
That's what the problem is, yeah.
And in comedy corner, she's a comedian, writer and podcaster.