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

This is so simplistic, I know but you're being very kind and you're nodding your head, so I'll keep going on.

Uh uh but so that's one aspect of it.

Another aspect, uh Elizabeth Frude, is the way that she expanded Egypt's trade.

Now can you give us a good idea how how she did that?

Punt?

why did she get a punt and what did she get from it?

I a I ask these with due tentativity if this is

Have we real evidence that you expanded trade in the Near East, as we now call it, and Africa as we now call it, as well as Pont?

I mean i is the proper you know

The um back to you, Camel Price.

Um her chief official was a man we know of called Senanmut.

There are twenty six statues to him.

He was very important to her.

There's a there's one uh carving of him with her th ch child on his knee.

Uh and and uh

What what can you tell us as much as you know about him?

Weren't you jumping up and down in anger that Manchester Museum had kept it for for for seven fifteen hundred years and No one

Kate.

But what's your view of how Y was so powerful?

I mean, can we just stop being tentative for half a minute and just just Nancy boil for half a min then I promise I'll pass on till we haven't got enough evidence for it.

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