RHLSTP Book Club 84 - Mary Beard
RHLSTP with Richard Herring
British Comedy Guide
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Book Club #84 - Emperor of Rome - Another live RHLSTP Book Club coming fittingly from the oldest recorded Roman City in England, Colchester. Rich and Mary discuss whether they might be on the site of Camelot, Boudicca’s decision to level the place to the ground and what year it might have happened, plus the controversy over which month Pompeii met its fate. But mainly they talk about her fab book Emperor of Rome and her podcast Being Roman. Did the excesses and jokes of the Roman emperors really happen? Is Donald Trump like Elagabalus? How do we know that Augustus was called on to judge the case of the slave who killed someone with a chamber pot? Are we able to find out about the lives of ordinary Romans? And where is the earliest known depiction of the crucifixion and how would the person who drew it feel about it being discussed so many hundreds of years later?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, thank you for visiting the Rich Tering Podcast Feed, powered by Aikast Plus. |
| 0:05.0 | Look, loads of exciting, Ruhlister Paterne's, the main thing I have to tell you is we now have confirmed |
| 0:11.6 | guests for the Hull Ruhaulust upon the 28th of March and you might |
| 0:15.8 | want to travel to Hull and book tickets because not only do we have Tommy Cannon joining |
| 0:20.7 | Ritchie Womball. We have the amazing Bob Mortimer has agreed to come up. |
| 0:27.0 | He wants to do a show that is for the audience only. He doesn't want it broadcast. |
| 0:31.0 | There is another one being broadcast in a few months that we recorded in January, so don't worry, you will get to hear Bob Mortimer regardless. |
| 0:38.8 | But if you want to see this exclusive one-off live Rahalastapur plus a recorded Rahalastub with Tommy Cannon |
| 0:45.9 | head to rich tearing dot com slash Rahalastepur book your tickets for whole city hall |
| 0:50.1 | it's a massive venue but it's selling really fast. So book your tickets, put your hotel rooms, put your travel. Get up to Hull for an amazing gig. |
| 1:00.0 | There are quite a few other gigs coming up. The ones that haven't yet sold out are |
| 1:05.8 | Leicester on the 25th of February with Simon Munry and Phil Ellis. Dublin on the 2nd of March |
| 1:11.3 | with Tommy Tin and Neil Hanen. |
| 1:14.0 | Only a few tickets there for both of those. |
| 1:18.0 | Warwick Art Center with Lindsay Sontaro and the |
| 1:23.0 | Bedford Corn Exchange with Olafil |
| 1:25.0 | and Al Murray, reorganized for the 21st of March |
| 1:28.0 | with added Al Murray. |
| 1:30.0 | So come along and see those if you can. |
| 1:32.0 | Rich carrying. Com slash mahalasta pub. |
| 1:34.1 | That whole news is so exciting. |
| 1:36.4 | It's great that Bob wants to do the show. |
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