Seasons & Episodes
Episode 1
Mary Beard visits Stonehenge, where she meets leading creative voices, including Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Dell
Episode 2
Mary enters the glitzy world of awards and prizes. There are hundreds: not just for books and movies, but poetry, museum
Episode 3
Mary inhabits the worlds of architecture and fashion to analyse how we live now, during a pandemic, and fulfils a 40-yea
Episode 4
Mary examines what the future holds for museums post-lockdown, venturing out of her study to the British Museum to take
Episode 5
Mary talks to award-winning filmmaker and Turner Prize winning artist Steve McQueen, discussing his views on growing up
Why We Laugh
Mary Beard asks why we laugh and explores what laughter can tell us about ourselves, our relationships and the world we
Hillary Rodham Clinton
In this very special episode of Inside Culture, Mary Beard meets former US Secretary of State, First Lady, senator and p
Back to School
Mary Beard asks why we are drawn to literature, theatre, TV and film that take us ‘back to school’. She meets author
Women on Top
Mary Beard explores how thousands of years of stories and images stereotyping women have shaped our thinking and what th
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 take
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-s
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 explo
Episode 5
Mary Beard brings her trademark wit and probing curiosity to an interview with a very special guest - Booker-nominated B
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