Caligula with Mary Beard. MARY BEARD

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Tonight, 9 o'clock, BBC2. Really looking forward to this, Mary is a fabulous presenter, and a brilliant woman.

Oooh thank you - will watch. I love Mary and you can never have too much Caligula. Arguably.

Me too.

Thanks for the tip-off, hadn't spotted this! Will definitely be watching, Mary Beard is brilliant.

I only spotted it by chance, flicking through the channels to see if owt good was on tonight. It turns out there is. :o

Thanks for the info, I had no idea.

Fantastic. Havent seen any trailers or ads so appreciate this.

I was reading about this today and part of the article was about the fact that Caligula was a nickname. Apparently translates as Bootikins or similar .

got it on sky planner already!

and my newly converted to horrible histories friend is also going to watch it, as she says, and I quote, ''never heard of caligula before HH and now I want to know everything!''

''my name is Caligula, a rotten Roman pigula....''

A quick bump as it's about to start after Raymond Blankety Blanc has finished wittering on.

I was going to start a thread on this. Glad there ia a thread ans lool forward to thw MN communal telly experience!

Looking forward to this - go Mary.

I enjoyed that. No myths really busted, but doubts have really been sown in my mind. Mary brings Roman life alive like nobody else. I want more of stuffs like this please. Edutainment is where it's at.

That was good, - I love Mary she's always interesting, - as a side issue I liked her blue coat too

There's another programme on at 11.20 tonight about skeletons found in the catacombs fr those who like Roman history.

If she tied her hair back shed look like Queen Victoria!! but she was good, although Im proud to say i knew it all already!. only thing i didnt know tbh was the disturbing bit about the little boys swimming under Caligula in the pool and nibbling on his bits! eeew.

Loved it. Dp came in and said 'history? You hate history' but not when it's Mary Beard!
Good trainees too!!

Missed seeing it but having read the review its definitly one to catch on i-player

Really enjoyed this although not sure I wanted to know about the nibbling boys.

I always remember on I Claudius when Caligula said the days password was "give us a kiss". No Wonder they hated him.

Liked the blue coat Mary.

Why does she have to touch everything she's talking about? She's like the Nigella Lawson of archaeology, the way she has to rub everything.
Otherwise she's OK.

i like the way though that she just presents and tells it like it is, no airbrushing, no blowdried hair and painted nails and clingy dresses and high heels, and just concentrates on the subject.

but yy i thought too why is she touching everything> thought you werent allowed to.