Professor Mary Beard
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662 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
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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She was taking antidotes.
So what in the end happened?
Well, yes.
Sorry, that's... But that half works.
The boat half works.
That he has a nice dinner with her down the coast of Italy.
By eye, I think it is.
How romantic.
And he has rigged up a collapsible boat...
And when she's out, he sends her home by boat and the boat collapses.
But I'm going to tell you off in a minute, Patton, because I've got a sad end to this.
Oh, sorry.
That's all right.
Oh, that's horrible.
She's thrown into the water, but he's forgotten she could swim.
She's a champion swimmer, right?
Nero didn't remember that mum could swim.
What I think puts us all in the spot here is that these are ludicrous stories.
And they are hammed up.
They feel like tropes.
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