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Radio 4,09 Sep 2022,14 mins

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Eight major novelists, historians and scholars including Alan Bennett, Lady Antonia Fraser and Bernardine Evaristo describe their experience of, and relation to, the reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Today it's the turn of the classicist and broadcaster Mary Beard, who reflects on the intersection between her study of Ancient Rome and the rituals and realities of modern monarchy.

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