Throughout August, we are revisiting the very best of the podcast during the last year.

In this episode; the TLS's Classics editor Mary Beard emphasizes the importance of teaching Classics in context, the medievalist Hetta Howes reviews a female take on 'Beowulf', and Ruth Scurr reveals the true history of the secretive Freemasons.

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Producer: Ben Mitchell

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