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Homer: The Odyssey

Homer: The Odyssey

Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics vor 4 Jahren

Natalie retells Homer's epic story of homecoming, adventure and passion.

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Natalie retells Homer's epic story in an extraordinary
tour-de-force performance recorded in the BBC's Radio Theatre in
Broadcasting House. The ancient original would most probably have
been performed from memory, and Natalie does the same:
twenty-four books in twenty-seven minutes. It's a story of
homecoming.

Odysseus returns from the Trojan War, loses all his men in the
course of his adventures, pauses for some pleasurable interludes
of infidelity and some less pleasurable interludes of kidnap, and
finally returns to his wife Penelope on the island of Ithaca
after ten years of war and a further ten years of travelling.

‘Rock star mythologist’ and reformed stand-up Natalie Haynes is
obsessed with the ancient world. Here she explores key stories
from ancient Rome and Greece that still have resonance today.
They might be biographical, topographical, mythological or epic,
but they are always hilarious, magical and tragic, mystifying and
revelatory. And they tell us more about ourselves now than seems
possible of stories from a couple of thousand years ago.

This is the eighth series of the show and all the other episodes
are available as podcasts on BBC Sounds.

Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery