Mary Beard BBC segment on Kenneth Clark's Civilisation renews debate about its Eurocentricity

The move opened up another front in the culture wars, enflaming some critics including the author Douglas Murray who writes in The Telegraph: 'The series has been re-released by the BBC with a warning note alerting fragile viewers to the fact that it reflects 'standards and attitudes' of its time, which is one of the most banal statements it is possible to make.'

In the segment added online, Beard says that Civilisation was 'hugely influential' on her and is one of the reasons why she became an academic. She adds: 'I'd never really grasped before that you could tell a story about culture.'

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