Mary Beard
Self - Presenter
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Series SeasonSeason 5 episodes2022
Inside Culture
Series 5
A look at the latest culture and media through the eyes of creators and audiences.
Episodes
Each episode has its own detail page.
Episode 130 min2022-02-25
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.
Episode 230 min2022-03-04
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.
Episode 330 min2022-03-11
The Art of Crying
Mary Beard is joined by actor and screenwriter Emma Thompson to talk tears, dissecting some of Emma’s most famous on-screen weeps and explore the role that crying plays both in art and in real life.
Episode 430 min2022-03-18
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 threat to our planet from catastrophic climate change.
Episode 530 min2022-03-25
Episode 5
Mary Beard brings her trademark wit and probing curiosity to an interview with a very special guest - Booker-nominated British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak.