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Episode: Glad to Be Grey
Description: Professor Mary Beard is a distinguished Cambridge Classical scholar with a string of highly-regarded books on Ancient Rome to her name, so it's slightly irksome to her that she is almost better known for her long grey hair.In this highly-authored documentary, Mary Beard investigates a growing reluctance to embrace grey hair.Starting in the Mayfair salon of "hair colourist to the stars", Jo Hansford, she's informed that her hair is "dreadful" and given a personal consultation by Jo herself about how and why she should colour it.In favour of choice and...