Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics
- Radio stand-up
- BBC Radio 4
- 2014 - 2023
- 36 episodes (9 series)
Natalie Haynes takes a fresh look at the ancient world, creating a stand-up routine about a figure from ancient Greece or Rome. Stars Natalie Haynes and Edith Hall.
- Due to return for Series 10
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Series 5, Episode 1 - Aristotle
Further details
Natalie Haynes stands up for Greek philosopher-scientist Aristotle, with Dr Adam Rutherford and Professor Edith Hall.
This week Natalie explores why it's so easy to fall in love with Aristotle, have fun with his Nicomachean ethics and how we know he had 20:20 vision. It seems he hated being tutor to Alexander the Great, although he did manage to stay alive in the lethal court of Philip of Macedon, where the usual toll of suspicious deaths was fourteen a week. But how much did he really know about elephants tongues and bivalves on Lesbos? We love a bit of gossip from a couple of thousand years ago.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 23rd December 2019
- Time
- 4pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Repeats
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Date | Time | Channel |
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Tuesday 22nd September 2020 | 11:30am | Radio 4 |
Cast & crew
Natalie Haynes | Host / Presenter |
Edith Hall | Guest |
Adam Rutherford | Guest |
Natalie Haynes | Writer |
Mary Ward-Lowery | Producer |