Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and a household name in the UK having written numerous books and presented many documentaries about Ancient Rome and Greece. Books of My Life host Rupert Hawksley spoke to Beard about her early obsession with a frightening tale, her evolving appreciation of Jane Eyre and allegiance to Germaine Greer.
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UK’s AI plan
- AI ambassadors such as MIT economist Simon Johnson, Monzo cofounder Tom Blomfield and Google DeepMind’s Raia Hadsell
- £10bn AI growth zone in South Wales to create 5,000 jobs
- £100m of government support for startups building AI hardware products
- £250m to train new AI models
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Uefa Champions League last 16, first leg
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