Fame, academe and gender: An interview with Mary Beard

Professor Mary Beard has brought the ancient world alive to millions via her acclaimed tv series. She successfully navigates a distinguished academic career with the demands of the media. She has also used her insights from the classical world to face down misogyny. Professor Susan Wray, the University's Director of Athena SWAN, interviews Mary about her career and reflections on being a public figure and female.

[@bealtainecottage]

Thank you for posting this wonderful interview with Mary Beard.

[@KatieRae_AmidCrisis]

Thanks for sharing this. Mary Beard is always both informative and entertaining to watch.

[@marygunning5121]

I always learn from Mary. Glad she is on Telly and youtube.

[@JLevant1]

Please give Mary Beard a better microphone and acoustic environment. 75% of all her interviews are being released with awful audio. This incredibly great individual deserves so much better. Thanks. Julian

[@naglakamal6485]

amazing for reall

[@hankrogers8431]

Love Mary. She is amazing.

[@shelleyauld3514]

I think Mary Beard is fantastic 👌

[@voraciousreader3341]

Discriminatory treatment definitely sapped my confidence, specifically in math, specifically in the fourth grade in around 1970. I was in the “highest” math group bc of entry test scores, but it was during that year I was conditioned to being told the answer for a problem when what I asked for was how to solve it. I would repeat the question and the teacher said, “You’re not going to need math, so don’t worry about it.” Now, I had already been sexually molested, and I’d already been treated as a third class citizen, bc my parents were divorced AND I was a girl, so this was one heavy MF stone that I have always carried on my back, and contributed to a great deal of self hatred. Because that teacher would hand back my tests with failing grades and always say, “Well, I can see you don’t understand this!” I’ve had a horrible issue with math ever since, mostly terror and a mental block....unless I know the answer. Then I can figure it out. These lessons make horribly deep, painful wounds, in spite of academic and professional and personal success, in spite of decades of therapy.

[@Pii1968]

💙💜💙

[@tinabolesful5184]

This is very interesting but I had to stop after 13 minutes because of the other ladys amplified dry mouth sounds. a microphone is best if you have a dry mouth.

[@BabylonianHebrew]

lit

[@anna8389szczerba]

Mary looks like a 5 year old with ADD during the whole introduction LOL 😂 now I know why she loves to run around all over Ancient Rome!

[@dantanna3161]

To describe Mary in one word, "woke"