Marc Fennell
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1,887 appearances
18 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Marc Fennell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And really, by the time you hit the 19th century, so that Victorian period, that's when it becomes this.
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I guess what it is now, this tourist attraction.
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The story of the the devastation of Pompeii, what is it that you think it tells us about humans?
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Those people didn't see it coming.
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We now have this incredible picture of
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of ordinary life.
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And I think so often when history gets recorded, it gets recorded
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About
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Kings and queens and people with power and the ability to write history.
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But one of the really, I guess, devastating and yet incredibly illuminating things about Pompeii is the way it happened, the awful way it happened.
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meant that we have this incredible
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kind of picture of the lives of ordinary people in the worst possible moment.
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There's something incredibly vulnerable.
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And human about that, isn't there?
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Who's the person that's gonna stay with you in out in all the time that you spent looking at the ordinary people of Pompeii?
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Who's the one that's gonna stick with you?
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One of the things you've done with your your research and particularly with this book is that you've you've kind of centred the story of of everyday people, working class people, middle class and working class people.
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Why is it important to go back and look at some of these most important moments in history and go, how were ordinary people affected?
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Why does that matter so much to you?
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Doctor Jess, congratulations on the book and thank you so much for talking to me.
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