Natalie Haynes
Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics

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

The host returns to create more comedy routines about figures from ancient Greece or Rome, with Adam Rutherford and Edith Hall helping to explore the life of 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
Tuesday 22nd September 2020 11:30am Radio 4

Cast & crew

Cast
Natalie Haynes Host / Presenter
Edith Hall Guest
Guest cast
Adam Rutherford Guest
Writing team
Natalie Haynes Writer
Production team
Mary Ward-Lowery Producer

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