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Radio 4,5 mins

How exams have got into our collective psyches

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Cambridge Classics professor, Mary Beard, tells the intriguing story of the history of exams and asks why, years later, we still wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat after an exam nightmare. First broadcast on You May Now Turn Over Your Papers, 6 July 2016.

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