Hannah Fry

I don't think you're allowed to carry it on your hand.

Powdered cat tooth.

Yeah.

And a heart shaped bloodstain.

That idea, though, of owning somebody's body after they have died.

I mean, you brought up the ethics of skeletons earlier.

I mean, there are some really dark stories, some really nasty stories.

I think possibly the most grotesque I heard about, and then I looked into it, this college in Oxford where at the end of dinner they would drink from a skull.

Right?

Yeah.

Absolutely true.

Well, this is the really dark thing about it.

So no one is quite sure, but this was a decades-long tradition.

They don't do it anymore.

They turned it into a dessert bowl after it started leaking, which is just even more grotesque.

But the cup was donated to the college in 1946 by a eugenicist, which tells you the direction this is going to go in.

It was originally bought at an auction in Sotheby's in 1884 when people have done radiocarbon dating on it.

The skull is 225 years old and the physical dimensions of it strongly suggest that it belonged to an enslaved woman in the Caribbean.

So I had a look online yesterday at Skulls Unlimited, which is a place that you can buy and sell them.

You can buy a skull for a couple of grand.