Emma Jane Palin, interior blogger and stylist joins Jasmine today to chat about how much inspiration our current homes draw from classical interiors. Alongside the more expected chats about mosaics and marble there's also talk of what every Deco magazine celebrities want to be featured in and even how current music bands are referencing furniture items that have classical provenance!

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Accredited sex therapist, author and co-host of The Real Sex Education Podcast, Jasmine's guest today is Cate Campbell, talking about attitudes towards sex in classical times. Were the Romans really more liberal than us and if so should we take a leaf out of their book when it comes to being less prudish when talking about sex?

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Life Coach and Business Strategist Simon Alexander Ong joins Jasmine to discuss the pursuit of happiness this week. How did the ancients pursue happiness and are the methods to achieve this that we use today likely to have been the same back then?

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The fabulous Dr Emeka Okorocha joins Jasmine today to discuss all things healthcare and medicine. Dr Emeka gamely answers Jasmine's pop quiz of Classical diagnoses to see if he can tell what the patient was suffering from, as well as managing to keep a straight face while she reveals some of the ancient cures. Hippocrates of course is discussed, whose oath Doctors even now have to commit to before they start to practise.

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Kicking off a new batch of the series that seeks to find out how the classics compares to modern day, Jasmine is joined by the brilliant Andrew Hunter Murray, best selling author, journalist and one of the indomitable QI elves. Talk ranges from misunderstood monsters to modern horror and, just to warn you, there is some bad mouthing of Cicero...

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Andrew's latest book 'The Sanctuary' is published by Penguin and he can be found @andrewhunterm on twitter.

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Award winning writer of The Little Cookbook series, Kate Young brings her knowledge and love of food to the pod this week to chat to Jasmine about ancient thinking about food, dining and why Pythagoras really had a thing about beans...

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Host of Comcompod, acclaimed stand up, and all round excellent person Stuart Goldsmith joins Jasmine today to find out whether what makes us laugh today is the same as that which tickled audiences in the Greco Roman period. Are we in a new age of comedy censorship, or have there always been limits to what we could joke about?

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Blogger and Author Sarah Turner, aka The UnMumsy Mum is the guest chatting to Jasmine this week discussing how modern attitudes to parenting contrast with how Greco-Roman parents dealt with their children, and whether or not their own boys would have coped with the less than gentle style of parenting at the time.

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Wine writer and presenter Aleesha Hansel chats to Jasmine about wine this week - how colonialism has shaped which wines we think of as the best, how attitudes to drinking have changed and why Aleesha believes our supermarket wine aisles need a reshuffle (and we agree!).

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Maths teacher, broadcaster and writer Bobby Seagull joins Jasmine to kick off the series as they discuss how ancient theories have stood the test of time and why Pythagoras is not the only classical Mathematician you should know about.

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