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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Happily for me, retired premiership footballers don't tend to write books about ancient learning.
I'm sure it'll come, but they don't.
I have to say, I find the whole celebrity children's book world absolutely extraordinary.
Because people clearly think...
Because it's for children, it's therefore going to be easy.
And I think this must be the most difficult kind of thing to get right.
You know, you can write 500 pages on ancient Rome.
Writing 50 pages on ancient Rome for kids, I just don't even imagine how you'd start to do that.
It's to do with rush hour.
I mean, you know, you do it at one o'clock in the morning and it's an hour and 15 minutes.
45 minutes on the train when the train runs on time.
When it does, you think that was the right decision to go on the train.
Well, we're going to do – because I've got this podcast about the ancient world, about the ancient world and how it works in the modern world, et cetera.
It's called, by the way, Instant Classics, and it's about us and the ancient world and all sorts of things.
You know all about this, don't you?
You have to – and you're very pleased to give it a bit of publicity and talk to some journalists.
So I spent yesterday morning –
talking about how you do ancient Greece, ancient Rome, myth, theatre, plays, togas, how you do it on a podcast and why it's important.
And that is great to do.
It's absolutely great to do, but...
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