Dame Mary Beard
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560 appearances
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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I mean, particularly since Zoom and everything, we spend hours a day looking at ourselves.
Yeah.
Not even looking in the mirror.
We just turn on the Zoom call or what we're doing now.
And we're always seeing ourselves.
We're seeing us as others see us.
And what would it be not to recognize yourself?
Is that me?
It's those kind of things, which I think...
What difference does that make?
For me, it makes a head hurt trying to think about it.
Some people think, oh, of all these big questions that you have to get your head around about ancient Greece and Rome, how did the Roman Empire fall?
I'm quite interested in those questions, but I'm not half as interested in those even bigger questions about what it was like to be somebody there.
Newgrange is obviously amazing and I've not been there, but I did go to Orkney quite recently and I hadn't been before.
And the Neolithic settlements on Orkney, there's a whole culture which I realised I didn't know much about.
I'd always thought about the Neolithic as, you know, let me confess, being some flints and then kind of
mock-ups of men in animal things, you know, bashing out stuff.
The idea that you could go to a whole Neolithic village, you know, and there were kind of places to put the crockery and whatever they had, and beds.
You know, I think the Romans are far enough away, but this...
I did think then, and I think you could say the same for Newgrange, really, that we always think about the British Isles from the south as if something, you know, culture starts in the south and spreads north.
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