An opportunity to revisit the British Museum Pompeii exhibition from 2013. Well worth watching.
“In 2013 we broadcast live from our blockbuster exhibition Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum. This 90 minute broadcast presented by Bettany Hughes and Peter Snow includes interviews with Rachel De Thame, Giorgio Locatelli and Mary Beard.”
Seneca, thanks for posting this link! I particularly enjoyed Mary Beard’s description of the “bar scene”! Rachel de Thame’s garden tour came in a close second!
It was good. I can only say that Mary Beard was more tolerable here than normal (though she far overdoes it with “one-horse town” – while Pompei was smallish, a couple of orders of magnitude smaller than a major city, it seems relatively wealthy for its size).
There are many beautiful shots. I had hoped to be in the UK again later this year, and this really makes me regret that it is now so unlikely to happen. (This year, at least.)