Zena chats about the heritage of the Near East and her family connection to the region, the 3D re-construction of the Palmyra Arch in Trafalgar Square, and the recent documentary film the 'Destruction of Memory'. We also talk about how monuments are recorded via photographs, and what this means in the age of Tripadvisor, Instagram, and even Tinder..., as well digging at Silchester, Roman toilets, and how Zena thinks archaeologists can make Twitter more inclusive.

Zena Kamash is Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, London. She has her own blog at: https://notallarchaeologistshavebeards.wordpress.com/

Theme tune: 'La Calahorra' by Rolemusic (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/~/calahorra)

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Greg Woolf chats about how he got into studying the ancient world, getting out of the ancient history bubble to talk to people in other disciplines, whether scholarship is a product of its time, diversifying the study of ancient history, and what events the Institute of Classical Studies has got coming up. We also cover how useful social media is for reaching out to people, whether you're always tied to your 'landmark' publications, and why David prefers to avoid his students at the gym.

Greg Woolf is Director of the Institute of Classical Studies in London. To find out what is going on at the ICS: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/

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