Natalie Haynes Stands up for the Classics

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Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics

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Natalie Haynes creates stand-up routines about figures from ancient Greece and Rome.

Natalie Haynes takes a fresh look at the ancient world, creating stand-up routines about figures from ancient Greece and Rome.

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Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics: Series 2: Aristophanes

Aristophanes

Series 2

BBC Radio 4 - Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, Series 2, Aristophanes

Join Natalie Haynes as she stands up for the Greek playwright Aristophanes.

Natalie Haynes takes a fresh look at the ancient world: meet Greek playwright and comedy genius Aristophanes. From 2016.

Join Natalie Haynes and guests for half an hour of comedy and the Classics from the BBC Radio Theatre in London.
 
Natalie is a reformed comedian who is a little bit obsessive about Ancient Greece and Rome.
 
She stands up in the name of Greek playwright and inventor of 'old comedy', Aristophanes.  Expect a chorus of frogs, rather too much information about padded costumes, and a sex strike. Oh, and a lot of gossip from two and half thousand years ago.
 
With special guests:

Rosie Wyles
Edith Hall 
Fiona Laird.

Producer:  Mary Ward-Lowery

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2016.

Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics: Series 2

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