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Natalie Haynes
Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics

Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics

  • Radio stand-up
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2014 - 2024
  • 44 episodes (10 series)

Natalie Haynes takes a fresh look at the ancient world, creating a stand-up routine about a figure from ancient Greece or Rome. Stars Natalie Haynes and Edith Hall.

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Series 1 (2014)

Petronius, Sophocles, Virgil and Aspasia were the topics of the first series.

Series 2 (2016)

Series 2 focused on Aristophanes, Ovid, Plato and Agrippina.

Series 4 (2018)

Outrage, outrageousness, and as always a lot of gossip from a couple of thousand years ago...

Series 6 (2020)

Natalie's sixth series, recording during the Covid-19 lockdown, looks at four mythical women: Helen of Troy, Penthesilea, Eurydice and Penelope.

Series 7 (2021)

The seventh series continues with Natalie recording during lockdown, and looking at some more mythical figures, namely Medusa, Pandora, Jocasta and Clytemnestra.

Series 8 (2022)

In the first series since the covid lockdown, Natalie covers topics of Pompeii, Spartan women, Lucretius, and The Odyssey.

Series 10 (2024)

The tenth series covers among others Cleopatra, Aphrodite and Aesop.

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