Professor Mary Beard
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662 appearances
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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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Names his son specially.
Well, I think that's one of the sort of problems, because what the story is that Agrippina started to engineer Britannicus being marginalised.
Right.
So I bet he didn't have a great pubes party and he was made to wear sort of childish clothes rather than posh grown up clothes.
And there's one story about how she sacks his tutor and replaces the tutor.
So he's got this nice tutor that he's attached to and she gets rid of him.
He's also said to have met a nasty end shortly after this.
The tutor, not Britannicus.
Well, Britannicus... Well, Britannicus comes to meet a nasty end.
She booted his tutor?
Shoot his tutor and then shoot him?
But it all works.
Can't shoot a booted tutor.
It all works fine because Claudius does die.
Very passive phrasing there, does die.
I was using it slightly euphemistically.
Claudius dies and the allegations are...
that he was poisoned by mushrooms.
He's at dinner and he's eating his favourite mushroom omelette or whatever it is.
The idea is that the mushrooms actually poisoned mushrooms, all but Agrippina had put poison on the mushrooms.
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