You're Dead to Me - Introducing... Dead Funny History

Episode Date: December 13, 2025

Attention kids of all ages! Greg Jenner introduces his brand-new comedy history show for all the family.From Ramesses the Great to the History of Football, the team behind You're Dead to Me serves up a smorgasbord of the funniest, messiest, and most astonishing stories from history.Expect pirates, spies, superstars, chariot races, bouncing cats, ancient toilets, radioactive notebooks, and a pig named Albert, all crammed into 14-minute episodes packed with jokes and sketches.Listen on BBC Sounds from Monday 15 December, 2025.

This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. I'm David Soucher, and from the Noiser podcast network comes Charles Dickens' ghost stories. This Christmas, I'll be reading a selection of the author's most chilling short works, brought to life with sound design and original music. But first, Dickens' most beloved ghost story of all, a Christmas carol. Charles Dickens' Ghost Stories, available wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, Greg here. I hope you're doing okay, and I hope you enjoyed our most recent series of You're Dead to Me. I'll be back in the new year with a brand new series, but before then, I heard some news of something else from the Your Dead to Me team.

This Christmas, forget about socks, forget about a jigsaw with missing pieces. No, we've got the best present of all. Dead people! Oh, that sounds like zombies. Sorry, it's not zombies. Um, let me start again. In our new family-friendly podcast series, Dead Funny History,

historical figures come back to life for just long enough to argue with me, tell their life stories and sometimes get on my nerves. Oh, it's not my fault. Yes, it is. Oh. So go ahead and unwrap some history. There are 15 new episodes waiting under your tree.

There's Ramsey's the Great. There's Josephine Baker, and even the history of... football. Can he hold the ball with his hands by his feet? Can he catch it, rush with it? Can other players tackle him? Huck his shin scows out his eyes, tickle him. Oh, never mind. So this Christmas, give your ears, and indeed your family's ears, a treat with dead funny history. You can find it in the Your Dead to Me feed on BBC Sounds. Thank you very much. Bye. This Christmas, I'll be reading a selection of the author's most chilling short works,

brought to life with sound design and original music. But first, Dickens' most beloved ghost story of all, a Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens' Ghost Stories, available wherever you get your podcasts.