Being Roman with Mary Beard
Hosted by Mary Beard · BBC Radio 4
4.8from 284 ratings
- 32
- Episodes
- 7
- Transcribed
- 284
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About Being Roman with Mary Beard
Mary Beard unearths the lives of the Ancients. Join Mary as she discovers the real lives of people from the ancient Greek world and the Roman empire.
- Publisher
- BBC Radio 4
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Nov 2023
- Latest episode
- 28 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
7 of 32 episodes have a transcript.
28 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
BONUS: Mary Beard on Homer's Odyssey
28 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Martin Scorsese and the Godfather of Athens
21 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Greengrocer Who Saved Democracy
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BONUS: Mary Beard on Homer's Odyssey
Published 28 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah, we think of it as how Odysseus got home from the Trojan War and what a terrible time he had of it or nice time he had of it. Being kidnapped by nymphs, threatened with almost everything, losing all his men. It's a kind of travel. It's a road movie. It's a road movie, but it's a road movie in part, as you were saying before, because the bulk of it actually takes place on it. And the reason we really wanted to concentrate on that was that it's really the story of a family. It's a story of a family that has been wrenched apart by the war. and that is trying in some way to come together again, to make sense of each other, to make sense of each other's roles within the family and of the decisions that these family members have taken over the course of the 20 years when Odysseus was not at home, was fighting and was travelling home. […]
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- Uberto Pasolini
- Martin Scorsese
- Rebecca Sweetman
- Elizavet Sioumpara
- Vincent Azoulay
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 137 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 147 ratings
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