Paris to Rome with Bettany Hughes: Florence, Lake Como, Milan
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Sunday, July 5 on 5 (5)
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Florence, Lake Como, Milan
Season 1, Episode 3
Bettany explores Florence, one of Italy's most beautiful cities, and studies one of her favourite paintings, Botticelli's masterpiece The Birth of Venus. She also indulges in a classic Florentine chocolate treat at Cafe Rivoire. Later Bettany visits Lake Como to discover how the A-list elite from Napoleon Bonaparte to Miley Cyrus have indulged and sampled the good life there for centuries. And finally, she visits Milan, Italy's centre of style and design
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Bettany Hughes
(Presenter)
Nick Catliff
(Executive producer)
Ewen Thomson
(Series producer)
Shula Subramaniam
(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.
Nick Catliff
(Executive producer)
Ewen Thomson
(Series producer)
Shula Subramaniam
(Producer)
