Summary
From Greek tragedy to Covid conspiracies via LGBTQI activism in Uganda, artist Leilah Babirye, classicist Natalie Haynes and BBC correspondent Marianna Spring join Matthew Sweet to explore the many roles of masks.
Leilah Babirye's first solo exhibition in Europe - Ebika Bya ba Kuchu mu Buganda (Kuchu Clans of Buganda) II - is at the Stephen Friedman Gallery, London until 31st July. Pandora's Jar: Women in Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes is now out in paperback. You can hear Natalie sharing her musical choices with Michael Berkeley on Private Passions on BBC Radio 3. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnv3 And Natalie discusses the legacy of the Trojan War in this episode of Free Thinking https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bg2k
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
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| 0:00.0 | Can I just say? |
| 0:01.5 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | It's such a wonderful listen. |
| 0:05.6 | So nice. |
| 0:06.5 | There are loads more like it on BBC sounds. |
| 0:08.8 | Different paces, different heights. |
| 0:10.6 | The roof is buckling. |
| 0:11.9 | Where you can also listen to live sports commentary. |
| 0:14.2 | It's right foot goes for goal. |
| 0:16.7 | And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories. |
| 0:21.7 | The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession. |
| 0:25.2 | And she's had to live with that. |
| 0:26.8 | So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion. |
| 0:29.7 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.7 | Sort of expecting that every week now. |
| 0:34.6 | The mask slips on this edition of the Arts and Ideas podcast, revealing thousands of years |
| 0:39.6 | of culture and history. It'll be exposed by the artist Leila Barbieri, the classicist Natalie Haynes |
| 0:45.6 | and the BBC's disinformation correspondent Mariana Spring. Join them and me, Matthew Sweet, |
| 0:51.9 | after this. Hello, my name's Ian McMillan, and before you slide into the podcast you were expecting, let me tell you a little bit about my programme The Verbe, Radio 3's Literary Festival, Language Cafe, and Journey to the Centre of the Sentence. We'll hear new poems and stories, specially commissioned for the show, and we'll ask the kinds of questions that writers really like to be asked. |
| 1:11.9 | Like, do you use a pen or a pencil? No, I promise, we won't ask that one. I use a pen, by the way. |
| 1:18.1 | Subscribe to the verb on BBC Sounds. I wrote that with a pen. |
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