Professor Mary Beard
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 1 May
Professor Mary Beard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So my message to people is, if you're in Rome, go and see Nero's golden house.
Because you still can.
And historians ought to be interested in things that aren't true as well as things that are.
Total pleasure.
Well, it's great to be here and be with both of you and even in the company of the Improneero.
We'll see about that.
Well, there's quite a lot of sources around Nero.
So there's loads of poetry we have, which is dedicated to him.
There's even a kind of little essay on how to be a good emperor.
It was written by his tutor and it was called On Mercy.
So perhaps he didn't take the lesson quite hard enough.
Where the thinner pickings are found is if you're looking for a standard ancient account of Nero A to Z, right?
The life, the reign.
We've got some.
They agree on one thing, that he wasn't a good thing, right?
They are quite, we call euphemistically, they're a bit hostile.
The reviews are in.
The reviews are in and they are not good ones.
I mean, it's the centre of this vast empire.
It's a million inhabitants, probably.
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