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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The confession is, I don't know what you think about the trains to Cambridge, Max, if you ever still come here, but the last four times I'd gone to London, the trains had been either cancelled or delayed.
So I was doing a series of interviews yesterday, and we'll come on to that in a minute, but I thought, I'm just not sitting on that train when it's half an hour late.
panicking that I'm not going to get there.
So I was being such a fretter that they sent a car.
So the car came at 7.30.
That's what happens to you when you're 70 years old and they really want you in London and they think, God, the poor old thing, is she going to manage?
They think, let's send a car.
Well, it's brilliant.
It's absolutely bloody brilliant when it works in 50 minutes.
But the times it doesn't, you sit there thinking, oh, no, they're going to be cross.
And what can I do?
Perhaps I could kind of get out at Finsbury Park or something.
So the privilege of the old lady, you know, she says, I really don't think it's a good idea to go by train.
We don't have breakfast today.
I've got a very nice little coffee machine, well, quite a big coffee machine, and it makes decent cappuccinos.
So I was pouring two cappuccinos into me, doing more email on my laptop downstairs before I went at 7.30.
It is a very favourite De'Longhi.
Bean to cup, as they call it, bean to cup.
And you press the button, which says cappuccino, and then a cappuccino comes out the other end.
It does what it says on the tin.
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