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You're Dead to Me

Introducing… Being Roman with Mary Beard

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.710.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In her new series for BBC Radio 4, Mary Beard reveals some of the real people from the Roman Empire - from a slave to an emperor.

Beneath the starched togas and the pungent fug of gladiator sweat there are real Romans waiting to be discovered. Mary Beard uncovers six fascinating stories from the Empire.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Doleepa, and I'm at your service.

0:04.7

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0:08.8

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0:11.2

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0:15.0

It's in the hands of the creator.

0:16.7

It's not every day that I have the CEO of the world's biggest company in my living room.

0:20.7

If you're looking at your phone more than you're looking in someone's eyes,

0:24.6

you're doing the wrong thing.

0:26.0

Julie, at your service, listen to all episodes on BBC Sales. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:37.0

To know what it means to be Roman, you need to look beyond the sweating gladiators and the start Shakespearean togas.

0:47.0

There are fresh stories to be told and other lives we can piece together from scattered clues and new discoveries.

0:55.0

I'm Mary Beard and I study and write about the ancient world.

1:00.0

In Being Roman, a new podcast from BBC Radio 4, I'm telling the stories of six intriguing people

1:09.7

who lived at the height of Rome's imperial power. From a slave to an emperor, their stories reveal

1:18.1

different sides of Roman life, their attitudes to slavery, migration and childhood, to fertility and the rights of women.

1:27.0

But it's the thoughts and feelings of individual people that I'm really interested in.

1:33.6

Farewell, my fronto, wherever you are, most sweet, my love, my de right.

1:39.1

How do I fare with you?

1:40.8

I love you, though you're not here. You know know in a sense it's turning the image of the

1:45.0

Emperor upside down for us. We'll meet a boy poet performing for the Emperor, a

1:50.5

doctor learning his trade in the gladiatorial arena a Syrian migrant on Hadrian's

1:56.4

wall and a young bride caught up in the bloody chaos of civil war.

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