25 November in the Roman amphitheatre at the London Guildhall, it's Instant Classics's first live event. We'll be talking about what life was like in Roman London. And a drink and mingle at the end. Had been sold out, but more tickets now released www.instantclassicspod.com/events
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November 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
25 November in the Roman amphitheatre at the London Guildhall, it's Instant Classics's first live event. We'll be talking about what life was like in Roman London. And a drink and mingle at the end. Had been sold out, but more tickets now released www.instantclassicspod.com/events
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
Hadestown? Trips to the Underworld in Greece and Rome. Have a listen!
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A Trip To The Underworld
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 06/11/2025 · 46m
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November 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Hadestown? Trips to the Underworld in Greece and Rome. Have a listen!
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Had a great night with @brisdram.bsky.social hearing @wmarybeard.bsky.social speak in Brisbane. She drove home for me how reflecting on the ancient world can help us make greater sense of the world we live in. She’s a treasure. Thank you, Mary. From an inspired Ancient History teacher right here.
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Had a great night with @brisdram.bsky.social hearing @wmarybeard.bsky.social speak in Brisbane. She drove home for me how reflecting on the ancient world can help us make greater sense of the world we live in. She’s a treasure. Thank you, Mary. From an inspired Ancient History teacher right here.
Thanks to the American Philosophical Society for hosting this discussion about the ancient world (features me I am afraid) amphilsoc.org/useful-knowled
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November 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Thanks to the American Philosophical Society for hosting this discussion about the ancient world (features me I am afraid) amphilsoc.org/useful-knowled
Catch our real life Roman ghost story on Instant Classics tinyurl.com/7t2kpzuh On Thursday we are dropping the follow up episode on the underworld in epic. Come and meet the ghosts of the Odyssey and the Aeneid.
Roman Ghostbusters
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 30/10/2025 · 38m
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November 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Catch our real life Roman ghost story on Instant Classics tinyurl.com/7t2kpzuh On Thursday we are dropping the follow up episode on the underworld in epic. Come and meet the ghosts of the Odyssey and the Aeneid.
What better for halloween than a good old Roman ghost story? Listen here! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
Roman Ghostbusters
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 30/10/2025 · 38m
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October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
What better for halloween than a good old Roman ghost story? Listen here! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
This week in Instant Classics Bookclub, we take a step back & think about the repeated adjectives used to describe characters in the Odyssey. What is their point? Join the Bookclub here instantclassics.supportingcast.fm (& you can get an earlybird offer to our first live event on 25 Nov)
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October 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This week in Instant Classics Bookclub, we take a step back & think about the repeated adjectives used to describe characters in the Odyssey. What is their point? Join the Bookclub here instantclassics.supportingcast.fm (& you can get an earlybird offer to our first live event on 25 Nov)
The question for today. Did Nero Really Fiddle While Rome Burned? And what tune did he play. On Instant Classics now tinyurl.com/cv7e9m92
Did Nero Really Fiddle While Rome Burned?
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 23/10/2025 · 44m
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The question for today. Did Nero Really Fiddle While Rome Burned? And what tune did he play. On Instant Classics now tinyurl.com/cv7e9m92
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Thoroughly enjoyed tonight’s “Evening with Mary Beard”.
It turns out that quite a lot of us in Edinburgh are fascinated by the Romans!
Thank you, @wmarybeard.bsky.social for all the fun and wisdom!
It turns out that quite a lot of us in Edinburgh are fascinated by the Romans!
Thank you, @wmarybeard.bsky.social for all the fun and wisdom!
October 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed tonight’s “Evening with Mary Beard”.
It turns out that quite a lot of us in Edinburgh are fascinated by the Romans!
Thank you, @wmarybeard.bsky.social for all the fun and wisdom!
It turns out that quite a lot of us in Edinburgh are fascinated by the Romans!
Thank you, @wmarybeard.bsky.social for all the fun and wisdom!
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Delighted to have a short piece in this week's TLS on Hades 2, gender, and modern myth making.
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Hell with other people
Video games are often the first and most common way that many people now encounter the classical world. Hades, a critical hit following its release in
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October 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Delighted to have a short piece in this week's TLS on Hades 2, gender, and modern myth making.
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Last day of sale. You have till midnight tonight to get 25% off my new book (out in the Spring). tinyurl.com/mr452usz A great "deal" from Waterstones.
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October 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Last day of sale. You have till midnight tonight to get 25% off my new book (out in the Spring). tinyurl.com/mr452usz A great "deal" from Waterstones.
Day Three of Waterstones 25% off deal on my new book (out in spring). Just one more day at this price. tinyurl.com/mr452usz
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October 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Day Three of Waterstones 25% off deal on my new book (out in spring). Just one more day at this price. tinyurl.com/mr452usz
I've got a new book out in spring #TalkingClassics: about why it's still worth bothering about ancient Greece and Rome. Now till Friday 17th Oct you can preorder through Waterstones. Enter OCTOBER25 at checkout & get 25% off RRP. #WPreorder tinyurl.com/TalkingClass...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I've got a new book out in spring #TalkingClassics: about why it's still worth bothering about ancient Greece and Rome. Now till Friday 17th Oct you can preorder through Waterstones. Enter OCTOBER25 at checkout & get 25% off RRP. #WPreorder tinyurl.com/TalkingClass...
The boy talks about his Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age on RTE here tinyurl.com/k3enkrv9 It's 25.29 minutes it. Give it a listen, why dont you! Why WAS the occult such a craze between WW1 and 2? And who were the occultists?
The History Show Sunday 12 October 2025
This week: The Jews who tried to escape to Northern Ireland on the eve of World War Two; and a forgotten history of the occult.
The Saved and the Spurned: Northern Ireland, Vienna and the Holocaust
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The boy talks about his Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age on RTE here tinyurl.com/k3enkrv9 It's 25.29 minutes it. Give it a listen, why dont you! Why WAS the occult such a craze between WW1 and 2? And who were the occultists?
Jack Rear's article "Mary Beard: ‘We’re still making a desert & calling it peace, just like the Romans’" in: telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fict…. "The classicist on how a British Museum visit sparked her love of history & why we shouldn’t be too reverent about ancient civilisations". @jacksayspurple
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October 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Jack Rear's article "Mary Beard: ‘We’re still making a desert & calling it peace, just like the Romans’" in: telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fict…. "The classicist on how a British Museum visit sparked her love of history & why we shouldn’t be too reverent about ancient civilisations". @jacksayspurple
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I'd highly recommend listening to the @instantclassicspod.bsky.social podcast from Mary Beard and Charlotte Higgins. Some fascinating insights and real passion in an interesting discursive format about the classical world.
There's enough episodes now for a bit of a binge as well
There's enough episodes now for a bit of a binge as well
October 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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On Instant Classics now, a deep dive into Cassandra, the Trojan prophet doomed to tell the truth but never be believed. We reflect on the story from Aeschylus to Taylor Swift & find more than meets the eye. tinyurl.com/mrymayzp
Cassandra: Prophet Of The Modern World?
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 09/10/2025 · 49m
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October 10, 2025 at 7:10 AM
On Instant Classics now, a deep dive into Cassandra, the Trojan prophet doomed to tell the truth but never be believed. We reflect on the story from Aeschylus to Taylor Swift & find more than meets the eye. tinyurl.com/mrymayzp
Tomorrow on Instant Classics (tinyurl.com/4s6vr4vp) we're looking at the long and complicated history of the toga. You'll never look on a toga party in thesame way again. That's FDR having a toga birthday party.
October 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Tomorrow on Instant Classics (tinyurl.com/4s6vr4vp) we're looking at the long and complicated history of the toga. You'll never look on a toga party in thesame way again. That's FDR having a toga birthday party.
A new episode of our Odyssey reading Book Club has dropped - discussing the rest of Book 1. From now on, I'm afraid you will actually have to JOIN the Club to listen. But there will be all sorts of other perks too. So go on! instantclassics.supportingcast.fm
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October 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
A new episode of our Odyssey reading Book Club has dropped - discussing the rest of Book 1. From now on, I'm afraid you will actually have to JOIN the Club to listen. But there will be all sorts of other perks too. So go on! instantclassics.supportingcast.fm
Talking in Oxford on 2 Oct. Just a few tickets left. I will be kicking off with a tiny Oxford classical treasure: some ancient Roman bullets with surprising messages imprinted on them! www.fane.co.uk/mary-beard
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September 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Talking in Oxford on 2 Oct. Just a few tickets left. I will be kicking off with a tiny Oxford classical treasure: some ancient Roman bullets with surprising messages imprinted on them! www.fane.co.uk/mary-beard
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Really kind of Mary Beard to give me this generous shout-out in her @thetls.bsky.social blog this week … www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
Don’t mess with a librarian
I have been off to Oxford to celebrate the skills, inspiration, charisma and resilience of librarians. First was the presentation of the Royal Society of
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September 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Really kind of Mary Beard to give me this generous shout-out in her @thetls.bsky.social blog this week … www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
Where should you go to see the best version of the lost statue of Athena from the Parthenon? Athens? London? No: Nashville! Listen here. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
Decoding The Parthenon
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 25/09/2025 · 53m
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September 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Where should you go to see the best version of the lost statue of Athena from the Parthenon? Athens? London? No: Nashville! Listen here. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
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This is becoming one of my favourite podcasts: Instant Classics by Mary Beard and Charlotte Higgins. Check the latest episode on free speech in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Join world-renowned classicist Mary Beard and Guardian chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins for Instant Classics — the weekly podcast that proves ancient history is still relevant.
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September 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
This is becoming one of my favourite podcasts: Instant Classics by Mary Beard and Charlotte Higgins. Check the latest episode on free speech in Ancient Greece and Rome
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'The Odyssey, with its stinks and stenches, its pigsties and drugged dinner parties, its beggars and bards, is not so high-flown as the Iliad.'
A. E. Stallings (@ae_stallings): The epic of homecoming in a new translation
A. E. Stallings (@ae_stallings): The epic of homecoming in a new translation
A mentor’s odyssey
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September 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
'The Odyssey, with its stinks and stenches, its pigsties and drugged dinner parties, its beggars and bards, is not so high-flown as the Iliad.'
A. E. Stallings (@ae_stallings): The epic of homecoming in a new translation
A. E. Stallings (@ae_stallings): The epic of homecoming in a new translation