Taking the mic today on the Biteback podcast is author Alex Deane! Alex's new book Lessons from History started as a Twitter project, collecting and celebrating history's forgotten heroes and villains via tweet threads. Now, he joins us to explain the importance of humour in telling stories, his favourite tales from the book and why you should always be grateful that you're not a Russian trapped in a snowstorm in need of major surgery...

Want to find out more? Lessons from History is available to order here: bitebackpublishing.com/books/lessons-from-history

Music

Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/