Mary Beard & Raphael Cormack: Curious Facts from History

Historian and classicist Mary Beard points to the surprising connections between antiquity and the present in her latest work Talking Classics. From revolutionaries to dictators, Bob Dylan to Beyoncé, she joins forces with the varied modern characters who have been transfixed by the ancient world. She is joined by her son, specialist in Arabic culture and the occult, Raphael Cormack to discuss his latest work Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age which explores spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind readers and Jinn in the interwar period.

Mary Beard: Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old, Profile Books

Raphael Cormac: Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age, C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd