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Bettany Hughes

Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster.
She was born in 1967 in and brought up in west London, the daughter of actor Peter Hughes and the sister of cricketer and journalist Simon Hughes.

Hughes has written two critically acclaimed books on Ancient Greek subjects, Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore (2005) and The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life (2010). The latter was a New York Times bestseller, Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 and a finalist for the Writer's Guild Award.

Hughes has written and presented documentary films and series on both ancient and modern subjects for National Geographic, BBC, Discovery Channel, PBS, The History Channel and Channel 4. In July 2012, she began to co-present a series on ITV with Michael Buerk, Britain's Secret Treasures.

She is a Tutor for Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education and a Research Fellow of King's College London. She has also taught at Oxford and lectured at Cornell, Bristol, UCL, Maastricht, Utrecht and Manchester.

Hughes is married to Adrian Evans, who also works in the Arts, and they have two children.

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Exploring India with Bettany Hughes (2023)
Starring as Bettany Hughes (2 episodes)
Paris to Rome with Bettany Hughes (2022)
Starring as Presenter (4 episodes)
Bettany Hughes Treasures of the World (2021)
Starring as Presenter (18 episodes)
Greatest Treasures of the Ancient World (2020)
Starring as Presenter (6 episodes)
A Greek Odyssey with Bettany Hughes (2020)
Starring as Presenter (6 episodes)
Ultimate Treasure Countdown (2020)
Starring as Presenter (6 episodes)
The Nile: Egypt's Great River with Bettany Hughes (2019)
Starring as Presenter (4 episodes)
  • Episode 1x04: Episode 4 (Jul 5, 2019)
  • Episode 1x03: Episode 3 (Jun 28, 2019)
  • Episode 1x02: Episode 2 (Jun 21, 2019)
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Jeremy Vine (2018)
Guest starring as Bettany Hughes
Pompeii's Final Hours: New Evidence (2018)
Starring as Bettany Hughes (3 episodes)
Eight Days That Made Rome (2017)
Starring as Presenter (8 episodes)
The Greeks (2016)
Starring as Research Fellow (3 episodes)
Genius of the Modern World (2016)
Starring as Presenter (3 episodes)
  • Episode 1x03: Freud (Jun 30, 2016)
  • Episode 1x02: Nietzsche (Jun 23, 2016)
  • Episode 1x01: Marx (Jun 16, 2016)
Genius of the Ancient World (2015)
Starring as Bettany Hughes (3 episodes)
Secrets from the Sky (2014)
Starring as Bettany Hughes (6 episodes)
Britain's Secret Homes (2013)
Starring as Presenter (5 episodes)
Britain's Secret Treasures (2012)
Starring as Host (14 episodes)
Divine Women (2012)
Starring as Bettany Hughes (3 episodes)
East to West (2012)
Starring as Bettany Hughes
The Roman Invasion of Britain (2009)
Starring as Herself (Presenter) (3 episodes)
The Minotaur's Island (2005)
Starring as Bettany Hughes (2 episodes)
The Ancient World with Bettany Hughes (2004)
Starring as Presenter (8 episodes)
Seven Ages of Britain (2003)
Starring as Presenter (7 episodes)
The Spartans (2002)
Starring as Bettany Hughes
Time Team (1994)
Guest starring as Historian (4 episodes)
Timewatch (1982)
Guest starring as Presenter
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