Meet the most brilliant personages of the past, reanimated in comics form to get their stories straight from the corpse’s mouth! Host Adam Murphy sits down with everyone from Cleopatra to Charles Darwin to find out all about their lives in a hilarious, fact-packed romp through history.

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“The corpses' company is so entertaining you don't even notice you've learnt syllabus-loads of stuff about everything from art, colonialism and the theory of evolution to war, diplomacy and the development of the scientific experimental methods… Ghoulishly good!”