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Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome. Empire Without Limit

Plot: Professor Mary Beard returns to Rome in this documentary exploring another dimension of classical history. In this series, Beard asks what made the Romans special and discusses why they were able to build empires at such a large scale. Myths and legends surrounding the origins of Rome are dissected...

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Inside Culture with Mary Beard

Plot: Mary examines what the future holds for museums post-lockdown, venturing out of her study to the British Museum. She gets to work taking miniature medieval masterpieces, the Lewis Chessmen, out of their lockdown storage.

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Artists on FIlm: Scenes from Working Lives

Plot: Series featuring BBC archive footage of major British painters and sculptors.

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Hannah Gadsby's Nakedy Nudes

Plot: Comic Hannah Gadsby gets an insight into one of the world's most historic art forms in Western history and culture: the nude.

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Meet the Romans with Mary Beard

Plot: Professor Mary Beard takes a look beyond the stories of emperors, armies and gore in ancient Rome, a city at the heart of a vast and dominating empire -- in order to meet the everyday people at the heart of the empire. The program draws a portrait of the first global metropolis as seen through the...

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The Nude

Plot: Mary considers the sculpture `Alison Lapper Pregnant'. When this figure of a disabled artist by Marc Quinn was installed in Trafalgar Square, it caused a sensation, challenging public expectations about what a nude sculpture in a classical style should be. Mary then examines a nude she argues is rarely...

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