Dame Mary Beard
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560 appearances
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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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So that was that.
When he sent it to me, I'll send some frank opinions back about whether it would make a good audiobook.
Most academics are not stupid.
You know, people think, oh, she's a silly old thing.
It'd be easy to pull the wool over her eyes.
Not likely.
I'm going to say, you know, I might have given that a first because, you know, the idea of self-criticism.
So we're now kind of about quarter past four.
Then I had a kind of nagging kind of worry because it was only the day before that I'd finished, actually kind of done the last full stop on the last chapter of my next book.
And I'd saved it, sent it off.
And I thought, should I read that last chapter again?
Yeah.
I'd been so pleased because I'd been struggling with this chapter for six weeks.
What I was saying was all right.
But, you know, in the end, I just thought this is a bit boring.
It's just a bit boring.
I don't like being born.
I had eventually.
The cost of mental agony, really, going to bed and having... There's nothing worse.
You guys know this when you're writing a book.
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