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: Agrippina

Agrippina

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

Natalie Haynes stands up for Agrippina the Younger, who bossed it in first century Rome.

Natalie Haynes takes a fresh look at ancient Rome and one of the most powerful women then - Agrippina the Younger. 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.
 
Today she stands up in the name of one of the most powerful women of Ancient Rome and Caligula's big sister, Agrippina the Younger. 
 
Julia Agrippina was pretty well-connected all round given that her granddad was the Emperor Augustus, her husband (also her uncle: don't ask) was Emperor Claudius and her son was Emperor Nero.  
 
And she was no slouch. Turns out it was her handiness with the purse strings  that kept the Empire going.  Also, who else has survived an assassination attempt by a specially built collapsible boat?
 
Producer:  Mary Ward-Lowery

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016.

Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics: Series 2

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