Series 5
5 episodes · Feb 25, 2022
A look at the latest culture and media through the eyes of creators and audiences.
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S5E1Women on Top
Feb 25, 202230mMary 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.
S5E2Back to the 90s
Mar 4, 202230mWhether 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.
S5E3The Art of Crying
Mar 11, 202230mMary 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.
S5E4Can Art Save the Planet?
Mar 18, 202230mShahidha 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.
S5E5Episode 5
Mar 25, 202230mMary Beard brings her trademark wit and probing curiosity to an interview with a very special guest - Booker-nominated British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak.