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How exams have got into our collective psyches
Cambridge Classics professor, Mary Beard, tells the intriguing story of the history of exams and asks why, years later, we still wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat after an exam nightmare.
First broadcast on You May Now Turn Over Your Papers, 6 July 2016.
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