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Misha Glenny delves in to the In Our Time archive to select ten episodes for listeners to revisit. His third choice, first released in November 2014, is the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut, whose name means 'foremost of noble ladies'. She ruled Egypt from about 1479 - 1458 BC and some scholars argue that she was one of the most successful and influential pharaohs. When she came to the throne, Egypt was still recovering from a period of turbulence known as the Second Intermediate Period a few generations earlier. Hatshepsut reasserted Egyptian power by building up international trade and commissioned buildings considered masterpieces of...
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- 172 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
- 208 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. This This is In Our Time from BBC Radio 4, and this is one of more than a thousand episodes you can find in the In Our Time archive. A reading list for this edition can be found
in the episode description wherever you're listening. I hope you enjoy the programme. One of the great pleasures of In Our Time is its serendipitous nature. The subjects are full of surprises. Sometimes it could be an author you particularly admire and you wish to compare your knowledge against the deep understanding of the guests. The next
week comes a subject you've never heard of. And that's why for this selection of highlights from Melvin Bragg's voluminous treasure trove of episodes, I have selected one about which I knew absolutely nothing until I heard it. The story of Hatshepsut, whose life answers the mysterious question, when is a queen not a queen? And the answer is, when she's
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