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The worst thing is a run-of-the-mill interview in which a celebrity reflects on the ups and downs of his life.
Bettany Hughes OBE is a historian, editor and broadcaster specializing in classical history. She grew up in London and has presented documentaries on vintage and fashionable subjects for which she has won awards. She is a visiting professor at King’s College London, patron of The Iris. Project, a charity which promotes the teaching of Latin and Greek in public schools across the UK, and she has written five books. She is vice-president of the National Churches Trust. Hughes and her husband, Adrian Evans, who was festival master during the Queen’s expired Platinum Jubilee, have two daughters and live in London.
My parents Peter and Erica were actors, and often out of work, so they were at home a lot. The kitchen table was the absolute centre of our life and the best times were sitting around the kitchen table chatting and eating my mother’s delicious food. My father organised a cricket club and my brother Simon was a keen cricketer so all of that happened there.
It was the hippie era of the 1970s and we had tenants who were founding Great Frog Jewellery, making silver necklaces in the upstairs room. By staying with us, they were able to save money to open their first store on Carnaby Street, and now now a large foreign company. My mom would write history and nature books with the local vicar, written on the kitchen table late into the night. He taught me that it’s smart to paint anything that uses your brain and is close to your heart. And that it is still conceivable to put the circle of family members first.
I finished high school and was betting on Snow White in the school play, and I fell in love with Prince Charming. And I don’t forget to ride my bike, sliding down a hill at night on the way home from school. I never wore a helmet and I never had a light; It was that kind of carefree time. It was the most beautiful, hot, hot summer, and I think that’s what the best bliss looked like. Now, I know there was a sacred spring there, convents and ancient devout institutions, so this Hill had an intelligent atmosphere.
The feeling of continuity between generations. Some of the women who took care of me as a child are still there. There’s a glorious woman named Tiggy who used to bake bread for us when we went to her space when we were kids, and we might just be able to walk her dog. The fact that she’s still here today as a glorious nonagenarian, and that we can still stay in touch and share moments together, is an amazing thing.
Standing my ground and being a historian even though everyone else was saying: don’t bother, the hitale has been replaced and no one cares. A BBC producer told me that no one saw the story on TV, that no one wanted to be lectured. a woman, which turned me on a little bit.
It was so amazing to hear. When you’re young, these kinds of comments are very demeaning, they destroy everything in you. I thought he was either going to destroy me or he was going to make me. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I had a physical feeling, going from general discouragement to: My project will be to make it a mistake. It took about 10 years, so it was actually a project.
If I’m ever seen by other people and I’m not in the desert or on top of a mountain, I wear this strappy black dress, Max.
The birth of my two daughters Sorrel and May. My first daughter was born in the morning, when Big Ben struck five. Sorrel was born in St Thomas, near Westminster Bridge, and I heard the big bangs and it was like an auspicious moment. My second daughter, May, as soon as she was born, snuggled up next to me and I gave her her middle name, Alma, which means nurturing spirit.
Crawling under the pyramid, to the very bedrock of the Great Pyramid, and savoring the walls with the salt, knowing that I was in what was an ocean 50 million years ago. I felt a physical connection to what is one of the Seven Wonders of the World. I suffer from terrible claustrophobia, but it was worth it.
When I’m filming, I have my cameraman with me, who knows I can panic. He is my wonderful ally, he talks to me and tells me: “Everything is fine. ” It’s smart when I’m filming, it’s more so when I’m filming. I’m investigating myself it’s a nightmare.
I was with a circle of Bedouin relatives in the Empty Quarter of Oman, and suddenly I was given a bowl of new camel milk, which they were milking while I was there. There were flies and I wanted to pretend it was delicious, however, it was one of the most fabulous things I’ve ever tasted.
Dive into the waters between Greece and Turkey and indulge in a full meal service aboard a ship, bound for Alexandria. A short circuit in the lives of so many other people 2,300 years ago and a tragedy.
I was a little bullied in elementary school because I’m a book buff. One day after school, someone organized a club where a kid had to fight me and other people were betting on who would win. And I worried a lot, not about the fight, though, because I think I’m in trouble. It’s the first time in my life that I have a crack on my chin, and just like in cowboy videos and cartoons, you can hear that noise.
When it happened and the crack sounded, I thought, “Wow, that sounds like what you see in the comics. “I was fighting a guy, so I definitely ran out of muscle. The organizers felt a little guilty after a while. Then they all melted and I was able to leave too.
In the years after my graduation, I was fortunate enough to undertake an additional educational year to complete a bachelor’s degree in art history at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and was awarded a scholarship to attend, but I thought it seemed too simple and predictable. I became an apprentice silk painter and it lasted about two weeks. I thought I was being more honest because I was living what it was like to be a medieval apprentice. But I did and graduated.
I was jumping to the upper floors of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, jumping from ledge to ledge, and I didn’t realize there was a sculpture sticking out. So I jumped up and hit my head on the sculpture, which made me dizzy and I almost fell. . Luckily, my cameraman saw what was happening, defended me, and drove me back to the building.
You have to keep going, no matter how harmful you are. We were in the middle of filming, so I had to move on. I didn’t have time to worry about doing that kind of thing. One smart lesson I learned from my parents is the feeling that you’re lucky to work. So I enjoy every minute of it.
Drinking bad water when I was on the borders of Kazakhstan and Siberia, where the nearest toilets were 240 kilometers away, was a challenge. I was researching Age cities Bronce. Al at least there was no team nearby, only other archaeologists to witness my humiliation. It lasted two days, I was in my thirties and I felt far from home.
With my first book, Helen of Troy, other people said it was a very confusing subject. And I even take into account the fact that she’s a female character in the myth and the tale doesn’t soften it. So it was a matter of maintaining my conviction on the subject, even though I knew there were criticisms even before I had written a single page. It was hard, but it makes you even more involved and more determined to reject them.
I find other people who lack love and support, and who are just close, to be really unpleasant. I like people who have a generosity of mind, body and soul, which is found in the most difficult places.
Bettany Hughes’ Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are now for sale (Weidenfeld
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