Hello and welcome to You're Dead To Me, the Radio 4 comedy podcast that takes history seriously.
My name's Greg Jenner, I'm a public historian,
author and broadcaster and today we are hopping into our hoop skirts and styling our hair in the French fashion
as we travel back to 18th century France to learn about Queen Marie Antoinette and to help us separate myth from reality we have two very special courtiers.
In History Corner, she's Professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick.
Her research focuses on French culture in the revolutionary and Napoleonic periods,
especially plays, prints and novels.
She's the author of Narrative Responses, The Trauma of the French Revolution.
It's Professor Catherine Asbury.
Welcome, Kate.
Thank you very much for inviting me.
And in Comedy Corner, she's a stand-up comedian, actor and writer.
You'll have seen her on all the TV, live at the Apollo,
Mock the Week, Frankie Boyle's New World Order,
or maybe you heard her podcast, WTB, or her other podcast, Memory Lane, and you will definitely...
know her from our episodes on Hernán Cortés and Melinsin and on Emma of Normandy.
It's Jen Bresta.
Welcome back, Jen.
Thank you, Greg.
I'm delighted to be back.