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Inside Culture: Series 2: Episode 2

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Mary is examining our rapidly changing language: what is it and why do we fight about it?

Mary is examining our rapidly changing language: what is it and why do we fight about it? She meets deaf musician Dame Evelyn Glennie, who discusses how her life has been affected by the pandemic.

Mary Beard examines our rapidly changing language. A stand-off between grammar sticklers and language radicals has fuelled the culture wars: texts and Twitter versus the Queen’s English. Mary talks to Shuggie Bain author Douglas Stuart on how his clever use of language won him the Booker Prize last year, with Game of Thrones star Kate Dickie reading excerpts from her Glasgow home. 

Journalist Ian Hislop shows us how we’ve been communicating in a social media style for two hundred years, and there’s heated debate about how our language is changing with John Humphrys, Kit de Waal and Helen Zaltzman. Key to the programme is Dame Evelyn Glennie, the musician who is profoundly deaf and communicates powerfully through her music. She’s sent Mary a beautiful waterphone so they share over zoom what it means to literally feel the music, and Glennie give us an exclusive performance to play out the programme.

Inside Culture: Series 2

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Britain’s best-known classicist presents a feast of performance, exploration and debate.

Mary Beard is back! Joined by the best creatives from Britain and beyond, Britain’s best-known classicist is countering the pandemic with a rich feast of performance, exploration and debate.

Mary Beard is back! Britain’s best-known classicist is countering the pandemic with a rich feast of performance, exploration and debate. Joined by the best creatives from Britain and beyond, in this series she reveals how much art and culture remains for us to enjoy while debating with film industry figures, sculptors, musicians and more on how they’re tackling the dramatic changes surrounding the creative industries. From the comfort of her study, Mary finds us cultural treats to delight and surprise.

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