Series six was broadcast from and included episodes about ' Helen of Troy' and ' Penthesilea, Amazon Warrior Queen', recorded with Professor Edith Hall. Haynes' guests included Professor Edith Hall and Anita Anand. Series five, which was recorded in October–November 2019 and broadcast on Radio 4 from 23 December 2019, included programmes on Aristotle, Claudia Severa, Suetonius, and Homer's Iliad. There have been eight series, each containing four episodes of around half an hour. īBC Radio 4 broadcast Natalie Haynes Stands up for the Classics, in which, aided by experts, she makes serious and amusing remarks about historical and mythological figures from ancient Greece and Rome, from Petronius to Sappho. Her guests included the novelist Julian Barnes, who read from one of his own books.

On 4 February 2013, she was the star of the BBC Radio 4 programme With Great Pleasure. She appears as a critic on Saturday Review on BBC Radio 4. Her subjects included the modern female writers Jessica Mitford and Dorothy Parker, and the classical male writers Aristophanes, Juvenal and Martial. In 20, Haynes wrote and presented documentaries on comic writers, for BBC Radio 4. She has also appeared on Radio Five Live's Anita Anand Show, and MacAulay and Co. She appeared in the BBC Radio 4 Pick of the Fringe in 20. Her stand-up has been featured in Front Row and Loose Ends on BBC Radio 4 and Spanking New on BBC 7. She has contributed to BBC 7 comedy review show Serious About Comedy and reviews films for Front Row. Unquote, Personality Test, and Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive on BBC Radio 4 and she has been an announcer on BBC Radio Four Extra. Haynes has been a panellist on Wordaholics, We've Been Here Before, Banter, Quote. She read Classics at Christ's College, Cambridge, and was also a member of Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club. Haynes was born in Birmingham, where she attended King Edward VI High School for Girls. Natalie Louise Haynes (born 1974) is an English writer, broadcaster, classicist, and comedian.

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