Dame Mary Beard
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560 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
Dame Mary Beard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Same Ones, you know.
I listen to David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell.
A bit more of the same, really.
Some of mine I've read myself.
That's a kind of a milestone, reading your own book out, partly because it takes forever.
And partly when you actually read it out to a microphone, you think, why did I say that?
So it kind of reveals to you.
My recommendation now, though I never follow it myself, is that before any author's book actually goes finally to press, what they ought to do is they ought to sit down and they ought to read it out to themselves from A to Z. Are you allowed to, when you're doing the audiobook, put in some caveats going, I don't think that now anymore, or sorry, I would have written that differently, but it's too late now?
I think that...
were a couple of times when I just decided unilaterally to alter it.
Without saying, I thought, oh, let's make this better.
I did have the stories from the Odyssey read to me, but I don't think, I have to confess, I don't think it's what sparked it all for me.
What sparked it all for me is something absolutely straightforward.
And it's a moment that I've never forgotten is that we lived up in Shropshire and my mum thought we ought to go and see the capital city when I was five because I'd hardly been to Shrewsbury.
We were living outside Shrewsbury.
We went to Shrewsbury and we got, I think it was a steam train, right?
I remember the smell of it, right?
It was brilliant.
And we went from Shrewsbury, then we went to Paddington.
And we had a kind of long weekend in London.
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