Kate Lister

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7,419 appearances 36 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

Kate Lister’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · How Debauched Were Roman Orgies? · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

They have quite an upfront attitude to it. matched

Like this is just something that people do and we're going to talk about it. matched

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And this freaked out later historians and they mistranslated the word orgy to just think they were having orgies all the matched

They are good images. matched

I have to give them that much. matched

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And then this kind of feeds into our imagination and it results in films like Caligula. matched

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mean, that really took the idea that Romans have orgies and ran with it. matched

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So I don't know if we can answer the question of how much sex were they having, but were there examples of what we might call an orgy, not a ritualistic rite, not people standing in weird positions, but like an actual group sex situation? matched

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So it's not like, please come to my orgy, it will take place at, right, matched

This just sounds like trash talk, though. matched

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