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Inside Culture with Mary Beard

Topical arts series hosted by Mary Beard.

Inside Culture with Mary Beard Episodes

Series 4: 2. When Mary Met Hillary Clinton

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 4: 2. When Mary Met Hillary Clinton

In this very special episode of Inside Culture, Mary Beard meets former US Secretary of State, First Lady, senator and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.\n\nIn a wid ...

17-09-2024

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Series 1: Episode 3

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This week, Mary is inhabiting the worlds of architecture and fashion to analyse how we live now, during a pandemic. With Eddie Izzard, Shahida Bari and Ayesha Hazarika, she disc ...

23-08-2023

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Series 5: Episode 5

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In the final episode of the series, Mary Beard brings her trademark wit and probing curiosity to an interview with a very special guest - British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak, w ...

04-04-2022

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Series 5: 4. Can Art Save The Planet?

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 5: 4. Can Art Save The Planet?

Shahidha Bari teams up with artists, poets, comics and musicians to investigate the role that the arts can play in exploring and processing the most challenging crisis of our ti ...

28-03-2022

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Series 5: 3. The Art Of Crying

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 5: 3. The Art Of Crying

Mary Beard is joined by the Oscar-winning actor and screenwriter Emma Thompson to talk tears. Together, they dissect some of Emma’s most famous on-screen weeps and explore ...

21-03-2022

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Series 5: 2. Back To The 90s

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 5: 2. Back To The 90s

Whether it’s in fashion and music or on our TV and cinema screens, the 90s are well and truly back. Shahidha Bari takes a look at the reasons why. She meets up with Ian Br ...

14-03-2022

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Series 5: 1. Women On Top

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 5: 1. Women On Top

Mary Beard explores how thousands of years of stories and images stereotyping women have shaped our thinking and what this means for women who are in positions of power today.\n ...

09-03-2022

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Series 4: 5. Down Under

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 4: 5. Down Under

Mary Beard investigates the ongoing history of creative connection and cultural exchange between Britain and Australia and asks what that relationship looks like today.\n\nMary ...

09-11-2021

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Series 4: 4. How We Read

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 4: 4. How We Read

Shahidha Bari takes the reins for this episode of Inside Culture, which celebrates the joy of books and asks whether the way we read is changing.\n\nIn Leicester, Shahidha drops ...

01-11-2021

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Series 4: 3. Back To School

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 4: 3. Back To School

Mary Beard asks why we are drawn to literature, theatre, TV and film that take us ‘back to school’.\n\nMary meets ex-teacher and best-selling author Philip Pullman t ...

25-10-2021

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Series 4: 1. Why We Laugh

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 4: 1. Why We Laugh

Mary Beard asks why we laugh and explores what laughter can tell us about ourselves, our relationships and the world we live in.\n\nMary visits the artist Maggi Hambling in her ...

11-10-2021

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Series 3: Episode 5

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 3: Episode 5

In the final episode of the series, Mary Beard hands over the reins to cultural historian Shahidha Bari. She explores the importance of self-expression: from the clothes we wear ...

30-06-2021

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Series 3: Episode 4

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 3: Episode 4

In a special programme, Mary Beard is in conversation with critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Her latest book, Notes ...

23-06-2021

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Series 3: Episode 3

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 3: Episode 3

Mary’s exploration of the world of arts and culture continues as she asks: why do we have to act our age? And what happens when we don’t?\n\nHow does age-blind casti ...

16-06-2021

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Series 3: Episode 2

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 3: Episode 2

Mary Beard embraces finally being on the move - whilst acknowledging we are not going very far!\n\nWhat do we lose from arts and culture when we cannot travel? Mary meets James ...

09-06-2021

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Series 3: Episode 1

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 3: Episode 1

Mary Beard kicks off the series by thinking about how we remember - not just as individuals, but as a society and a nation. As we emerge from a year of tragedy and uncertainty, ...

02-06-2021

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Series 2: Episode 6

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 2: Episode 6

In a special programme to end this series, Mary is in conversation with British writer Jed Mercurio. He’s the mastermind behind hit show Line of Duty, returning for a new ...

18-03-2021

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Series 2: 5. Other Worlds

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 2: 5. Other Worlds

Mary Beard focuses on other worlds, by talking to cultural creatives who make them for our exploration and delight. Mary talks to Booker Prize winner Marlon James about his Dark ...

08-03-2021

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Series 2: 4. Fact V Fiction

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 2: 4. Fact V Fiction

Why is there such a fuss about the difference between fact and fiction? With suggestions of 'truth warnings' for The Crown, and heated debate about colour-blind casting in Bridg ...

03-03-2021

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Series 2: 3. Audiences And Spectacle

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 2: 3. Audiences And Spectacle

Audiences are preoccupying Mary Beard this week – do they matter and what’s their role? We’ve spent much of lockdown lamenting the loss of attending live perfo ...

22-02-2021

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Series 2: Episode 2

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 2: Episode 2

Mary Beard examines our rapidly changing language. A stand-off between grammar sticklers and language radicals has fuelled the culture wars: texts and Twitter versus the Queen&r ...

15-02-2021

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Series 2: Episode 1

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 2: Episode 1

Mary Beard is back! Britain’s best known classicist is countering the pandemic with a rich feast of performance, conversation and debate.\n\nHot on the heels of the US pre ...

08-02-2021

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Series 1: Episode 5

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 1: Episode 5

In a special programme to close the series, Mary is in the company of award-winning filmmaker and Turner Prize winning artist Steve McQueen. His films, including Hunger, Shame a ...

08-11-2020

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Series 1: Episode 4

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 1: Episode 4

Playing her part in BBC Arts #MuseumPassion season, Mary examines what the future holds for museums post-lockdown, venturing out of her study to the British Museum. On her first ...

01-11-2020

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Series 1: Episode 2

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 1: Episode 2

Mary enters the glitzy world of awards and prizes. There are hundreds: not just for books and movies, but poetry, museums and gardens. How do they influence what art is created ...

18-10-2020

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Series 1: Episode 1

Inside Culture With Mary Beard - Series 1: Episode 1

With a new title, and a new regular slot, Mary Beard’s topical arts series (formerly Lockdown Culture) returns. This time, Mary is venturing out from her home study, and h ...

11-10-2020

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