Paris to Rome with Bettany Hughes: Paris
3:05 pm - 4:05 pm, Sunday, June 28 on 5 (5)
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Paris
Season 1, Episode 1
The historian travels through France and Italy to discover how travel, the arts and culture, and the finest foods can enrich and inspire our lives. She starts this journey in Paris. With special access to the Louvre Museum, Bettany comes face-to-face with the 2,000-year-old Venus de Milo, before checking into five-star boutique L'Hotel, where playwright Oscar Wilde spent his final days
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Bettany Hughes
(Presenter)
Ewen Thomson
(Series producer)
Shula Subramaniam
(Producer)
Nick Catliff
(Executive producer)
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Did You Know..
Bettany Hughes
(Presenter)
Best Known For:
Presenting documentaries on lost civilisations
Early-life:
Bettany, born in 1968, grew up in West London with her brother the cricketer Simon Hughes. Her parents were in the theatre: she learnt early the importance and delight of sharing thoughts and ideas with a wider public. Bettany won a scholarship to read Ancient and Modern History at Oxford University and then continued her post-graduate research while traveling through the Balkans and Asia Minor.
Career:
Hughes lectures throughout the world. She has been invited to universities in the US, Australia, Germany, Turkey and Holland to speak on subjects as diverse as Helen of Troy and the origins of female 'Sophia' to concepts of Time in the Islamic world. She considers her work in the lecture hall and seminar room amongst the most important, and rewarding she does. She has written and presented a number of documentaries for TV including When The Moors Ruled Europe, Helen of Troy and The Spartans for Channel 4. Her Ancient World series was a global smash.
Quote:
'Over thirty years ago I sat and watched a programme on British television about Tutankhamen. I still remember the frisson - the realisation that the stories I'd heard; of boy-kings dripping in gold; of hidden burial chambers and court intrigue could, sometimes, be true.'
Trivia:
In 2014, Hughes was made a distinguished friend of the University of Oxford.
Ewen Thomson
(Series producer)
Shula Subramaniam
(Producer)
Nick Catliff
(Executive producer)
