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Horace

Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics vor 6 Jahren

Natalie Haynes stands up for Roman poet Horace. With guests Llewelyn Morgan and Ben Okri.

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Join Natalie Haynes and guests for half an hour of comedy and the
Classics from the BBC Radio Theatre in London.

Natalie is a recovering comedian who is a little bit obsessive
about Ancient Greece and Rome. Each week she takes a different
figure from the Ancient World and tells their story through a mix
of stand-up comedy and conversation.

Today she stands up in the name of Horace, the Roman poet who
made friends of his enemies through the beauty of his writing,
whom we all still quote today, often without realising. You know
that bit of Latin in the Wilfred Owen poem? That's Horace. The
son of a freedman, Horace was a master at avoiding political
controversy. He was no looker, being by his own account short and
fat, but he definitely had a racy side (think mirrors on the
ceiling).

A town mouse, a country mouse, and a lot of gossip from a
thousand years ago.

With special guests novelist and poet Ben Okri and classicist
Professor Llewelyn Morgan. Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery.