Patrick Wyman is the host of the Past Lives podcast, which covers ordinary people from all periods of the human past, including war captives, enslaved workers, a guy who got bitten by a lion in Roman York, and the best-preserved mummy ever found. He previously hosted the Tides of History and Fall of Rome podcasts, and has written a couple of books: The Verge: Renaissance, Reformation, and Forty Years that Shook the West; and Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World.
