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Greg Jenner
@gregjenner.bsky.social
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~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME comedy & history podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑‍🎓
~ Author of 7 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ Ex-HORRIBLE HISTORIES BBC TV 📺🤣
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑‍💻
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Get them this
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Just saw My Neighbour Totoro stage show in London, and it’s absolutely astonishing — magical, spectacular, funny, devastatingly emotional, and wonderfully innovative. If you love the film, or just love live theatre, it’s a must watch
November 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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LOL, Thomas Frank is just throwing Panini stickers up in the air, and wherever they land is the formation 😆🫣
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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DEAD FUNNY HISTORY
PRODUCTION CREDITS:

Host: me
Produced by Dr Emma Nagouse & @Scriblit

Scripts by Dr Emma, @scriblit.bsky.social, @athenakugblenu.bsky.social, @JackBern.bsky.social

Audio editing by Emma Weatherill

Starring @jlukeroberts.bsky.social , Richard David Caine, & Mali Ann Rees
New series launches Monday 15 December. Three special episodes will be broadcast on Radio 4 on 19 December, 26 December and 2 January. BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME TO PRESENTS: DEAD FUNNY HISTORY! Attention kids of all ages! Dead Funny History is the brand-new comedy history show for everyone aged 8 to 108, from the team behind the hit Radio 4 podcast You're Dead to Me. What links a 70-foot colossus to the prettiest cow in Ancient Egypt? Which world-famous siblings began as terrible teachers? And what was the surprisingly dangerous Christmas game in medieval Britain? From Ramesses the Great to the Brontë sisters to the history of football, Greg Jenner serves up a smorgasbord of the funniest, messiest, and most astonishing stories from history.
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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100 reviews! A pleasing round number for my children's book TOTALLY CHAOTIC HISTORY: ANCIENT EGYPT GETS UNRULY!

Got kids aged 7+? They might enjoy this funny, factual series co-written by me and top experts, and all illustrated by @rikinparekh.bsky.social. Published in print and audiobook
The cover of Totally Chaotic History: Ancient Egypt Gets Unruly is bright yellow and shows a cartoon Pharaoh being chased by a crocodile. The book is cowritten by the egyptologist Dr Campbell Price, and it has a 4.7 star rating from 100 reviews.
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Hang on! Just spotted Odobert lurking in there…

Uh, 5-4-1 klaxon?!
November 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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3-5-2 klaxon! #COYS
November 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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If you’re looking for a lovely book, perhaps as a gift, I’m hugely enjoying @susiedent.com’s new one Words For Life — it’s a lovely linguistic calendar, with a different word entry for every day of the year
The cover of Words For Life is green, teal and gold. It shows a rabbit holding a large carrot!
November 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Do you get this page? Click the blue ‘object’
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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To object to Meta using your private DMs and WhatsApp messages…

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November 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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You can also watch my 15 minute chat with Adam on Newscast chat here — scroll back to 16.13pm

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Just had a lovely chat with Adam Fleming for the 25 hour Newscast podcast marathon for Children In Need - he’s on air until 9am tomorrow!
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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I’m not one to criticise awards (I’ve been on judging panels and it’s a real privilege), but I’m quite disappointed by the Grammy nominations for Best Comedy Album
Category 69 Best Comedy Album For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new recordings. Drop Dead Years Bill Burr PostMortem Sarah Silverman Single Lady Ali Wong What Had Happened Was... Jamie Foxx Your Friend, Nate Bargatze Nate Bargatze
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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“Save £5,000!” is doing some real heavy lifting on the Black Friday sales at Andertons Music store 🤣
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November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I didn’t know that Bluesky has automatic moderation that hides stuff you might not want/need hidden

Go To Settings, Moderation, then click this purple Advanced button to make your own choices — some of this might be very welcome, but some of my settings were too prudish
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Happy publication day to my fave Shakespeare scholar Professor Farah Karim Cooper for her illustrated children’s book ‘All The World’s A Stage’
The cover art for Professor Farah Karim Cooper’s new illustrated children’s book about Shakespeare shows Hamlet, Bottom and Romeo and Juliet illustrated in soft pastel colours, on a teal cover SHAKESPEARE FOR TODAY *ALL THE *WORLD'S* * YOUR STAGE * * * She says: Thanks to DK publishing and @manjitthapp for her gorgeous illustrations!
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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KUDUS ABSENCE KLAXON!
November 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Mr Scorsese is such a superb documentary series on Apple TV — I learned tonnes about Scorsese’s life and work
November 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Black Bag is a fun little movie — a 90 minute Soderbergh spy thriller in the Tinker Tailor fashion. It’s smooth, stylish, sexy and short. Good cast, with Blanchett & Fassbender on top form, and some funky music from David Holmes
November 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Here’s a video version of the above post about the Inspiring History Teaching Awards organised by Historic Royal Palaces — go nominate a brilliant history teacher!!

www.hrp.org.uk/schools/insp...
November 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Feel like Tel should play. And what happened to Odobert?
October 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Hi! I’m joining Mr Dilly’s Non-Fiction November LIVE streaming event for UK schools!

Celebrate truth, curiosity & creativity in children’s nonfiction
✨ Thursday 6 Nov 11am
🏫 Free event + replay available for classrooms

🔗 Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/non-fictio...

#ChildrensBooks
October 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Got kids aged 8+? Get them my latest book! It's a chaotic rollercoaster ride through the Stone Age -- it's tonnes of fun, full of the latest scientific discoveries, is cowritten with the expert archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social, and is illustrated by @rikinparekh.bsky.social. Cheers!
October 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Went to Hatchlands in Surrey and witnessed the two great sights in nature: a rainbow and a Frankenduck
October 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Scrolling through my 5,000 photos on my phone, trying to organise them into albums, and stumbled on this important piece of journalism from 2022 🤣🤣🤣
It's all downhill for philosophy! HISTORIAN Greg Jenner had a useful suggestion for utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham's preserved body. "I asked [its curator] whether it'd allow for maximum happiness if we could put Bentham in a bobsleigh and push him down the hill at the Winter Olympics," Jenner tells us, as Bentham argued for maximising happiness for the most people. But Jenner, host of the You're Dead to Me podcast, says his suggestion was met by "disappointment and genuine alarm". Happiness minimised.
October 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM