BBC RADIO 4: You're Dead To Me: The Mayflower

  • Misha Ewen

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Description

Greg Jenner is joined by historian Dr Misha Ewen and comedian Alex Edelman to take a trip back in time and across the Atlantic with the passengers of The Mayflower. They ask all the most pertinent questions: What would you pack for a journey to a new world? What’s a great name for a baby born at sea? And just why is a journey that was objectively a gigantic failure held in such high regard in American culture?

Period6 May 2020

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Media coverage

  • TitleYou're dead to me
    Media name/outletBBC Radio 4
    Media typeRadio
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date6/05/20
    DescriptionGreg Jenner is joined by historian Dr Misha Ewen and comedian Alex Edelman to take a trip back in time and across the Atlantic with the passengers of The Mayflower. They ask all the most pertinent questions: What would you pack for a journey to a new world? What’s a great name for a baby born at sea? And just why is a journey that was objectively a gigantic failure held in such high regard in American culture?
    URLhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p085v0g7
    PersonsMisha Ewen

Keywords

  • history
  • the Mayflower
  • US history
  • Puritans