Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker and broadcaster Mary Beard among Booker Prize judges

Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker and BBC history and arts broadcaster Dame Mary Beard are among the judges for the 2026 Booker ...

Mary Beard to chair Booker Prize jury

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Dame Mary Beard says Cambridge is better without the 'thicko' rugby players of her day

Dame Mary Beard has claimed that Cambridge University is better off without 'thicko' rugby players from her day. The revered classicist and art historian believes that Cambridge has been 'transformed ...
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BBC Proms in Aberdeen’I never laid eyes on Aeneas …’ Women’s Stories from the Ancient World

A sequence of songs and arias for voice and lute, devised by and featuring soprano Nardus Williams, classicist and historian Dame Mary Beard and lutenist Elizabeth ...