I adore Natalie Haynes. She's so enthusiastic. Pandora's Jar was great. Ditto A Thousand Ships. I'm currently enjoying Stone Blind (audiobook) and really love the way she reads it. It could be a quite dry,dusty subject but she makes it an adventure story from a woman's perspective. Love the radio show too.
Weirdly I was thinking *yesterday* about how would you reconcile the ancients' own nostalgia and moaning about decline with the discovery of fire, which Natalie mentions here? Isn't it just that the idea that modernity sucks is pretty much as old as the human race? Imagine two Stone Agers in a cave. One of them picks up a stone and says: "Blimey. Remember when they weren't so eroded?"
I adore Natalie Haynes. She's so enthusiastic. Pandora's Jar was great. Ditto A Thousand Ships. I'm currently enjoying Stone Blind (audiobook) and really love the way she reads it. It could be a quite dry,dusty subject but she makes it an adventure story from a woman's perspective. Love the radio show too.
I'd love to meet Natalie, just so I could greet her by saying : Nice to see you Natalie. Would you like a cup of tea Medea😅
Weirdly I was thinking *yesterday* about how would you reconcile the ancients' own nostalgia and moaning about decline with the discovery of fire, which Natalie mentions here? Isn't it just that the idea that modernity sucks is pretty much as old as the human race? Imagine two Stone Agers in a cave. One of them picks up a stone and says: "Blimey. Remember when they weren't so eroded?"
She speaks, you listen...