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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Women gave birth because they couldn't get out once they got in and the baby came.
And they were forced to flatter him.
They were forced to say, blimey, you're brilliant, Nero.
Now, there is something pretty ludicrous and pretty unpleasant about flattery, but again, I think it's a place where we need perhaps to stop and say, well, would we say to Prince William or President Trump or someone like that, after seeing them perform, I think that was a really lousy show.
The YMCA dance is fantastic.
It's just brilliant.
So we tend not to notice our own flattery and to notice the flattery when it's done by others.
That's fair enough.
Maybe.
Or after dinner gossip.
saying, do you know what role Nero's going to play next?
Ha ha, Orestes.
Yeah, yeah.
Maybe, maybe.
And it's where the boundary is between the gossip and the hiding in plain sight that's very hard to fix.
Well, he went round all the major games, the Olympic Games, the Isthmian Games and all the others.
No, he was main stage.
And he won everything.
Well, he is reported even to have won when he kind of fell out of his chariot and didn't finish the course.
Most emperors try to have a triumph for killing people.
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