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.
- Returns on Tuesday on Radio 4 at 9am with Christmas Special
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Series 1, Episode 4 - Aspasia
How to be a notorious woman in ancient Greece.
Further details
Women in ancient Greece were supposedly not seen, not heard and not talked about. Meet the woman who broke all the rules - all the more remarkably for the fact that she was the partner of one of the most powerful men in Greece at the time, Pericles.
Natalie explores how writers and comedians used Aspasia's reputation as a way of attacking the statesman - a practice which hasn't changed much over 2,500 years.
With classicist Sarah B. Pomeroy, Dr Ian Jenkins of the British Museum and Cate Haste, co-author with Cherie Booth of a book on the lot of the statesman's spouse.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 14th April 2014
- Time
- 4pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Natalie Haynes | Host / Presenter |
| Sarah B. Pomeroy | Guest |
| Ian Jenkins | Guest |
| Cate Haste | Guest |
| Natalie Haynes | Writer |
| Christine Hall | Producer |