rich 1.0 Mary Beard chats to Harry Mount about her new book, Talking Classics - the Shock of the Old. She 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. She discusses Mussolini's reconstructions of ancient Roman buildings – and  translates the delightfully rude graffiti in the Bar of Salvius in Pompeii. Radio Oldie https://audioboom.com/channels/3241568-radio-oldie Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/43575969/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8885552/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>