Melvyn Bragg
speaker
1,061 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3d ago
Melvyn Bragg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Kate Spence, lecturer in Egyptian archaeology at the University of Cambridge and Campbell Price, curator of Egypt and Sudan at the Manchester Museum.
Elizabeth Freud Hatsheput was born around fifteen hundred BC, not long after a period of turmoil, turmoil even in Egyptian history.
What had been going on?
So how did you become stabilized and active and uh conquering again?
Yes and the la the last of those, the one from whom she's directly descended, seems to have been particularly effective.
Come on, Price, let's just take a swerve for a moment too before we come back to her.
Ca are there any other examples of female pharaohs before Hachaput?
Yes.
by lots?
How many?
But you say Amazonian queen.
They didn't have a word for queen and is she a pharaoh, so a regent?
I'm just I'm sorry to be picky,
it's not a good thing.
No, no, you're right.
So it's
as in female rule.
So what is this this this this Basher as you've so eloquently described it?
Uh what is she?
Is she a regent or is she a
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