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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It produces cappuccino.
It is loud.
And I think that, you know, if you were to say, suppose I had the whole barista kit at home, would I be able to make a better cup of coffee after a bit of practice than what my instant machine does?
The answer to that must be yes.
But think of the effort, you know.
Now that is luxury far beyond having a driver to take you to London when you're fretting.
Could you also send the barista?
Well, look, it's kind of everything, you know, and I'm still on X and quite a lot of those questions come from X.
Some of them actually are really, really nice.
You get people who say, look, I'm in Rome and I'd really like to go and see a site that wasn't so crowded or ever.
Sometimes you think, oh God, do I really have to answer this?
And you think, yeah, I do.
They've written to me.
I go out, you know, putting my views about Rome about to the general population of the country.
You know, I can't then say if they ask me a question, I'm not going to answer it.
You know, that's what I do.
That's what I do.
But sometimes it's really worth it because you say, oh, where are you staying?
And you get a little bit of it.
Then you say, I'd go there.
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