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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There's nothing worse than going to bed with fewer words written than you woke up that morning.

Because what you've done is you've crossed stuff out you haven't added.

I'd been going through that.

The chapter was getting shorter and shorter by the day.

Then I'd kind of somehow got my act together.

I'd thought, okay, and I'd talked to a few people and they'd be quite helpful.

And right, okay.

And so I'd actually, it'd take me about a week, but I'd redone it and finished it.

Final full stop, save and sent her off.

But by the time I got back, I thought maybe I should have,

I've got plenty of time and it's not going to go to press tomorrow, but maybe I ought to have another look at it.

And so what I first did was I read it through.

I made a few changes, but I thought...

I breathed a sigh of relief, really, because I thought, OK, I'm not sure it's perfect, but it's fine.

And it kind of, you know, the demons went out of my mind a bit at that point.

From myself, yes.

It's about why on earth we're interested in the ancient classical world.

There might be a penalty, but I'll take the penalty.

What happens then with writing a book is that you've had all this kind of up-to-the-wire stuff, and then nothing happens for months.

By the time it actually comes out, it was months ago when you were actually writing it.

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