The rhetoric of war... some thoughts here on "Gotcha", "Up Yours Galtieri" (remember?) and "Toast". Where does dispassion blur with euphemism? tinyurl.com/mmaz6p8k
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I do hope people appreciate the joke! For my new book (partly reflecting on a career in Classics, partly asking 'WHY study the deep past?', 'What do we get out of it?'), I chose an 'author photo' taken by my friend Di, 50+ years ago. Book details: tinyurl.com/fktznv5c
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... Posh nosh with the Romans. What do we make of all those stories of Roman culinary excess??
Rehearsing for our programme of women’s music at the wigmore hall tonight at 7.30 (8march). Hop along!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... How to nosh with the Roman posh (and what it tells us about Ancient Rome) on Instant Classics.
Near Keswick on 14 March? Just ten tickets left for my event (with Raph Cormack) on history and its curiosities at 5.00 pm. Preview of new book.. www.theatrebythelake.com/book-online/...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... The morals of ancient consumption and a glimpse into a real Ronan cook book. An Instant Classics two parter on Roman eating. First episode: the posh!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... Here we delve into the morality of eating and into a surviving Roman cookbook
Come and join me and Nardus and Liz, speaking and singing in celebration of women at the Wigmore Hall on 8 March (inc a new composition by Errollyn Wallen) www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
There has been some debate about repurposing churches into mosques listen here for the complicated history of the Parthenon in that respect podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
shortsighted decision to cut classical languages at UIowa Petition here c.org/ZVhdNSckD8
Women's power and women's music. Celebrate International Women's Day 8 March with me, NardusWilliams & Liz Kenny at Wigmore Hall. From Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy, Errollyn Wallen and MORE (inc a handful of feisty 17th century nuns!) Details: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
The reference was not to book festivals (where I agree there is loads of non fiction). But to the celebrations round the Year of Reading (where fiction dramatically dominates). Don’t get me wrong I think fiction is hugely important… but reading includes more.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... my friend Charlotte here on why reading for “pleasure” is NOT the be all and end all of reading. With a shout out for non fiction too which hasn’t got too much of a look in during this year of reading.
Women's power and women's music. Celebrate International Women's Day 8 March with me, NardusWilliams & Liz Kenny at Wigmore Hall. From Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy, Errollyn Wallen and MORE (inc a handful of feisty 17th century nuns!) Details: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
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Here it is! Our Instant Classics episode on the Lupercalia: whipping, nudity, laughter. How do we begin to understand it? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
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We'll be talking about the Lupercalia (thanks for this 👇👇Sarah) on the next episode of Instant Classics, out on Tuesday: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
The third episode in our Helen of Troy mini series on Instant Classics Here it’s Helen of Egypt !! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
Words and music for International Women's Day with me, Nardus Williams and Elizabeth Kenny . Wigmore Hall 8 March. Book here: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
Great to hear James Graham talk on BBC radio 4. I think I was echoing that sense of constructive debate about what "we" are when I was talking yesterday in Dublin. How do we think about what it would be not to be "us"? History and fiction are crucial. I am with @carlosfnorena.bsky.social here
Really enjoyed my conversation with Sophie Gee for @slobpodcast.bsky.social on the #Frankenstein MS @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
You dont win 'em all! Reform's Matt Goodwin in Sunday Times: 'Most .. people criticising me are nerds.The last thing I want is to be at some dinner party table with Nick Robinson & Mary Beard. I'd rather shoot myself in the head'. Hang on, I'm not THAT bad!Nerds sometimes have a (thoughtful!) point.
The sevond episode of our 4 part mini series on Helen of Troy What did she do at Troy during the war over her? A double agent?? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
Noone could claim I'm not invested in fiction (chairing Booker this year). But non-fiction is getting a bit short-changed, I think, in this UK "year of reading". For some, it's always been non fiction (glimpses of other worlds, other ways of thinking) that started the reading vibe.
