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.
- Due to return for Series 11
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 3 - Virgil
Virgil gives tips on bee-keeping and creates Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Further details
Natalie Haynes considers the work of the Roman poet Virgil, ranging from his hints on bee-keeping to his great work The Aeneid.
Dido is the classic wronged woman and the Aeneid contains the best ding-dong between a man and a woman in all Latin literature, culminating in Dido's memorable promise "If you go I'm going to kill myself and then I will pursue you from beyond death with black fires!"
Natalie is joined by Pamela Helen Stephen who has sung Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, bee-keeper Gordon Cutting and Dr Llewelyn Morgan to talk about the greatest poet in the Roman world.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 7th April 2014
- Time
- 4pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Natalie Haynes | Host / Presenter |
| Pamela Helen Stephen | Guest |
| Gordon Cutting | Guest |
| Llewelyn Morgan | Guest |
| Natalie Haynes | Writer |
| Christine Hall | Producer |