Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics
Hosted by Natalie Haynes · BBC Radio 4
5.0from 1,284 ratings
- 57
- Episodes
- 18
- Transcribed
- 1,284
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics
Natalie Haynes takes a fresh look at the ancient world, creating stand-up routines about figures from ancient Greece and Rome.
- Publisher
- BBC Radio 4
- Category
- comedy · history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Feb 2020
- Latest episode
- 10 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
18 of 57 episodes have a transcript.
10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Medea
4 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Roman True Crime
27 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Argonautica
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Medea
Published 10 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I'm a foreigner. And I didn't want you to think I was being stuck up. People often think the worst of you when you're a foreigner, even though it's really difficult when you don't know somewhere because you were brought up somewhere else. But my husband has turned out to be the worst of men, she says. And who could know that? Women are the most wretched creatures who live, she says, because we buy ourselves a husband at an enormous price. She's talking about the dowry. And there's no way of knowing if you're going to get a good one or a bad one. And that's true, of course. And she says there's no possibility of us divorcing him if it doesn't work out, but they can divorce us, you know, just find somebody whenever they want. […]
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- Hallie Rubenhold
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- Adam Rutherford
- Michael Scott
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- 4.9 / 5
- 291 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 993 ratings
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