{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Mary Beard in conversation with Harry Mount","description":"Mary Beard chats to Harry Mount about her new book, Talking Classics - the Shock of the Old.\n\nShe reveals how she first fell in love with the ancient world when she was five – and a British Museum room steward opened a display case, holding a 4,000-year-old bread roll from Thebes, Egypt, for her.\n\nShe discusses Mussolini's reconstructions of ancient Roman buildings – and  translates the delightfully rude graffiti in the Bar of Salvius in Pompeii.","author_name":"Radio Oldie","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/3241568-radio-oldie","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43575969/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}