# Costume Dramas with Dr Emma Southon

An episode of [Sentimental Garbage](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1444729607), 16 Jun 2022, 1 h 04 min.

Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/sentimentalgarbage/e/62aa2a5e3c831c0012fb45ed/media.mp3

Costume dramas are the most dominant way that ordinary people engage with history, so why are we so frequently snobby about them? Dr Emma Southon gives a historian's perspective about the usefulness of costume drama, as well as the pure pleasure of just looking at nice fabrics. We talk Shakespeare in Love, Marie Antoinette, The Lion in Winter, I Claudius, Vanity Fair and even make a pretty good case for A Knight's Tale over Gladiator. Dr Emma Southon is the co-host of History is Sexy and the author of A Fatal Thing Happened on The Way to the Forum, and Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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