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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What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty · S3 EP10: Dame Mary Beard · 24 Aug 2025 podcast

I'd also been assured that it should be true, right?

So you will notice that I have, you know, the true kind of boredom of the last half of my day has, I hope, come out, you know, and I have not, I've not invented a car chase or anything like that.

I've been totally honest and you can see what the life of a retired academic is like.

It is sitting down with their laptop, reading people's book proposals.

But I felt very pleased because I thought, otherwise I'm going to get up in the morning and I'm going to think, what did I do when I got back?

So I wrote it down.

And then I thought, you know, and I'm afraid we're quickly coming to the end of my day.

I got up at six, remember?

And it was really hot yesterday.

And I thought, what do I do now?

You know, you can't go to bed at half past eight, right?

Can you?

What the husband said, because our house is an old house and it's not terribly sunny.

And so it's not that hot, but it's still, you know, you think, I feel a bit sort of debilitated.

In our bedroom, we've got one of those old colonial style fans in the ceiling of our bedroom.

It is amazing.

You know, it is amazing.

And you instantly, you put it on full blast, cool air appears to come from nowhere.

So he said, why don't you go work on the bed?

You know, why don't you go?

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