Greg Jenner

Welcome back, Darren.

Thank you for having me.

Darren, last time you demonstrated incredible knowledge.

I did, yeah.

You were basically an expert on Eugene Sandow.

Right, I was going to say, the history of ancient North Africa.

Okay.

Does the name Hannibal ring a bell?

Okay, Hannibal Buress.

Yeah, that's it.

That's my knowledge.

So, what do you know?

Well, that brings us to the first segment of the podcast.

It's called the So What Do You Know, where I have a go at guessing what our lovely listener might know about today's subject.

And when I say Hannibal, you might, like Darren, be thinking of TV people.

I think of the cigar chomping leader of the A-team.

More likely you're thinking of the famous fictional serial killer, but today it's less Hannibal the Cannibal and more Hannibal of Carthage.

Hannibal has appeared in a tonne of historical novels, including ones by Ross Leckie and Ben Kane, several films as well, the 1959 film Annibale and the 2009 film Hannibal, and apparently if Vin Diesel gets his way, maybe soon we'll be getting a high-octane Hannibal trilogy.

I can't wait to watch an elephant power drift around a hairpin corner.

But what is the fact behind the fiction?