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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Oh, God, I think that is really good.
Yeah, and the film was very good too.
I'm not going to say which is better, but both are well worth a look.
Well, now, what's changed really in the life of the academic community
Over the last 10 years, particularly I think since COVID, but before, is that almost everything that you want to read in academic journals, you can get on your laptop.
Sure.
You used to have to go to the library, get up early and I'll go to the library and I'll look that up.
That's right, blow the dust off a thing.
No one's read this for a long time, etc.
White gloves as well, yeah.
That is a revolution for me.
You know, you can think, you know, I've got to read some of those boring old articles about the second book of the Odyssey, which is what I'm thinking about at the moment.
And I just click on them, and there they are.
But I'm afraid there is a kind of nasty follow-up to this story.
I think, right, okay, this is going to be good.
I'm going to get through this.
I'll save them in my little file on my laptop so I've got them safe and I can come back to them.
So I start doing that, and I think I'm getting on quite well, actually.
But then I don't remember very much until kind of the 10 o'clock news is playing on the radio because I put the radio and my husband is wanting his pillows back.
I've just dropped off, you know, and it's 10 o'clock.
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