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A Somewhat Complete History of Sitting Down
- By: Greg Jenner
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May 3 202138 mins
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- TheZee
- 19-05-21
Sitting for a change
What an incredible deep dive into what we all do without thinking! Mr Jenner brings all the WOW of Horrible Histories to this fantastic podcast.
I am really taken by this thoroughly enjoying project. It's all great opportunity for sitting for a change.
5 people found this helpful
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- Amazon Customer. Mr Howitt
- 14-05-21
Are you sitting comfortably I will begin.
An informative and some time happy look at what we at time take for granted. look forward too volume 2 ??
4 people found this helpful
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- Corsaire
- 27-05-21
Surprising and satisfying history
A really interesting social history, which looks at all the situations in which sitting has a social implication - not a promising subject, you'd think. But Jenner uses this basic human activity to look at power relations, industrial environments and travel, amongst other things. Great stuff.
3 people found this helpful
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- A. Young
- 24-05-21
brilliant!
surprisingly interesting, wide-ranging, thoroughly researched, and encompassing a fascinating amount of history from different people including wheelchair users, parliamentarians, Irish freedom-fighters and people of colour, to name but a few
3 people found this helpful
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- Paul Andrew
- 23-05-21
entertaining
fun and informative, would recommend for light entertainment if you like to find out stuff you didn't know you needed to know.
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- b
- 04-04-22
Very interesting and well written
Really pleased I stumbled across this, very interesting and nicely written. I hope he keeps writing!
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- Anonymous User
- 15-11-21
Verbal diarrhea
The amount of waffle in under two minutes bored me to stop this garbage and remove from my library
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- Victoria Perrin
- 18-07-21
Absolutely fascinating!
Completely engrossed from start to finish! A great history lesson too. Awaiting a sequel!
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- peter
- 17-07-21
Really interesting!
I was surprised and sceptical that you could make a while Series, but gave it a go because of how much I've enjoyed Greg Jenner's other books and podcasts. Glad I did - it was really interesting and quite funny in places. Now I'm wondering if there could even be another series 😁
Thanks Greg (if you ever read this)!
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- D. G
- 13-07-21
great fun and really informative
absolutely brilliant, really enjoyable and eye opening. can't wait for the next podcast regarding the history of standing up!
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- Anna Marie Nedeau
- 07-08-22
very interesting whilst sitting and knitting
I like having things to listen and learn about whilst knitting. Fun things to think about. I would look up things like the Camden bench and the kings sex chair to see what they looked like. Had no idea. Sitting as protest was enlightening. Inspires a sitting protest for the Roe V Wade in stirrups. Enjoyed this series.
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- William H.
- 20-02-22
Fun and thoughtful
As always, Greg Jenner delivers an informative, thought-provoking, and entertaining product. More of this, please!
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- Tyler J Cooper
- 18-11-21
Jenner Doing What He Does Best
Fans of Greg Jenner’s ‘You’re Dead to Me’ podcast already know all to well his ability to take subjects that seem uninteresting at face value, and turn them into engaging and memorable lessons in history. This Audible Original is not different.
The production value throughout all eight episodes is nothing short of stellar, incorporating wonderful music, interviews, sound effects, and most importantly, the cheerful witticisms that is Jenner’s narration and performance.
No matter where you sit or how you do it, this will forever change the way you view the art of sitting.