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Season 1 – Mary Beard's Shock of the Nude

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Mary Beard explores why artists are so interested in nudity, and what art can reveal about people's attitudes toward their bodies.

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Camilla Long The Times (UK) 02/07/2020
I always find Beard's arguments flabby and inconsequential - a mass of free association devoid of factual muscularity or detail or useful critical thinking. Go to Full Review Hugo Rifkind The Times (UK) 02/07/2020
[Mary] Beard is great. Go to Full Review Rachel Cooke New Statesman 02/05/2020
[Mary] Beard will say that this series is a provocation, not a survey. But if this is the case, why is she so lily-livered? Go to Full Review John Boland Irish Independent 02/11/2020
Mary Beard provides a necessary and timely corrective to such sexist twaddle, though in the process she tends towards making heavy weather of her polemical task. But she's a lively presence and raises lots of intriguing observations and ideas. Go to Full Review Marina Vaizey The Arts Desk 02/04/2020
3/5
She (Mary Beard) is enthusiastic, staggeringly energetic, erudite, profoundly knowledgeable, the antithesis of fashionable in both opinion and appearance. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Mary Beard

Host

Deborah Lee

Director

Helena Hunt

Producer

Richard Bradley

Executive Producer

Denys Blakeway

Executive Producer

Jonty Claypole

Executive Producer

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Feb 3, 2020 The Beauty of the Body With distinctive wit and flair, Mary Beard takes a personal view of the nude in Western art and its troubling power to provoke ideas about gender, sex, and moral transgression. Details Episode 2 Aired Feb 10, 2020 Details

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Mary Beard's Shock of the Nude — Season 1

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Season Info

Director
Deborah Lee
Executive Producer
Richard Bradley, Denys Blakeway, Jonty Claypole
Network
BBC
Genre
Special Interest, Documentary
Original Language
British English
Release Date
Feb 3, 2020