Melvyn Bragg

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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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In Our Time · Archive: Hatshepsut · 20 Aug 2026 podcast

Even less than that, yeah.

But basically dentistry as I understand it.

Abscesses.

Yeah.

And that well that's very clear, but I'm just trying to isolate the idea of this woman being a pharaoh and everything that a pharaoh implies in terms of depiction, in terms of history, in terms of influence on Egyptologists such as your good selves.

Kate Spence, what do we know about her immediate ancestors?

So we have an idea of a royal grouping, uh, who intermarry and keep the keep the firm going.

arguments.

It's quite complicated enough, Frankie, so we can Yeah yeah.

We can we can say we've done complication for the moment.

So but she was in given the the secondary uh developments of of wives and the other so she seems to have been in rather a powerful position.

Graham was talking about these these powerful royal women and the powerful regents.

She was already that, wasn't she?

Because of the primacy of her birth to the first to the first wife and her father's a great warrior and so she was in a strong position already in the court.

I meant what Campbell was saying.

So why did she do we know anything about was she forced to marry him?

Did she choose to marry him?

So again to go back to to to Graham's idea of there being only one pharaoh women woman pharaoh before, but lots of powerful women.

She's in the stage of being

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