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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He seemed terribly old, but he was probably about 40, I guess.

And he said, was I wanting to see anything in particular?

And I said, yes, I want to see that piece of bread at the back of the case.

And he must have been a curator and he put his hand in his pocket.

He got keys out.

He opened the case.

Wow.

And he brought out the bread.

I couldn't touch it, but he put it right in front of my nose.

And for me, that was the moment.

It was kind of time travel.

It was face to face with a piece of bread that old.

You could have pretended, and maybe I was very gullible that they were all fakes anyway, but I don't think so.

So I think actually it wasn't great literature that turned me onto the ancient world.

It was this piece of bread.

And okay, it was Egyptian, not Roman, but same thing.

It lasted well.

It happened again in my head yesterday.

About half a three, quarter to four.

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