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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Mr Sluggish, do nothing.
Mr Sluggish.
But it was a right move.
There had been this absolute monster of a governor really wreaking havoc against, OK, the rebellious Britons, but horribly.
And to the credit of Nero's administration, whether Nero really had anything to do with it or not, we don't know, they took notice of the whistleblower and they replaced the governor.
People say it's a lyre.
You also have been an ancient Romanist.
Yeah.
You've just got the right mindset for this.
I'm so close.
All the time.
Because one thing we know about Rome is it was a tinderbox that fires happened in the city of Rome.
Always.
Really?
And they didn't have very good firefighting equipment.
And the most that they could do, they did in this case, was actually just knock down buildings to have a fire break.
And nevertheless, the story arose that Nero had started it.
Suetonius thinks he started it in order to clear the ground so he could build himself a fantastic new palace.
Because that's exactly what he did.
That's the mob boss thing, yeah.
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