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Cancel any time T's and sees apply. Welcome to the special edition of the New Statesman Podcast recorded live at Conway Hall on the

30th of July 2014.

In this episode I'll be talking to Mary Beard and Laurie Penny about why people are so

afraid of outspoken women. Good evening everyone and thank you so much sorry we had some difficulties getting everybody in here

and that it's really hot but we're a good panel but I don't think we're good enough

to be able to affect the weather so I apologize for that I'm joined tonight by two

fearless intelligent outspoken women to talk exactly about why women like them are so frightening to people.

So that their mere existence leads to threats, abuse and mockery.

Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Cambridge University and the author of books such as Laughter in ancient Rome.

She's presented several television programs on the Romans and she blogs for the Times Literary Supplement.

She was a subject of vicious personal abuse after she appeared on question time in 2013.

Her lecture for the LRB in March was called The Public Voice of Women.

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