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Inside Culture: Series 2: Audiences and Spectacle

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Audiences are preoccupying Mary Beard this week – do they matter, and what is their role?

Do audiences matter, and what is their role? Mary talks to sports stars about how the loss of the crowd affects their performance, as well as attending her first Twitter listening party.

Audiences are preoccupying Mary Beard this week – do they matter and what’s their role? We’ve spent much of lockdown lamenting the loss of attending live performance - in sport, music, theatre and more, so Mary talks to sports star Ellie Simmonds, and Clare Balding about how the loss of the crowd affects performance. She attends her first Twitter Listening Party - a new way for musicians to reach their audience – and talks to Rev Richard Coles, former 1980s band The Communards, and Tim Burgess of The Charlatans, who came up with the idea. Mary has some fun discussing the changing role of the spectator across history with Kwame Kwei-Armah, Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Dr Kirsty Sedgman, and there’s an exclusive performance from Amy Macdonald at Glasgow’s Barrowlands – famous for its legendary audiences.

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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