Dame Mary Beard

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560 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard Aug 2025

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My mum insisted that we went to the British Museum.

I wanted to see the mummies because that's what kind of five-year-olds want to see.

And she said, well, yeah, we'll go and see the mummies.

She was a village school teacher.

So she said, we better go and see something about Egyptian everyday life too.

Don't just want dead Egyptians.

We want what they did when they were alive.

And so we went to look at that.

You guys won't remember because you weren't alive what museums were like in 1960 if you were a kid.

The cases were very high and child-friendly it wasn't.

And she spotted in this case, she says, oh, God, the back of that case, there's a piece of Egyptian bread.

It's 3,500 years old.

Oh, wow.

Stuff the mummies.

I mean, a piece of bread, more than 3,000 years old.

I really want to see it.

But it was at the back of the case and I couldn't see.

And we were a bit encumbered and I was a bit heavy and she couldn't lift me up really.

At that moment, a guy walked past.

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