NATALIE Haynes, the BBC Radio 4 broadcaster, novelist and former standup comedian has shared her journey through her insightful career.

Natalie’s career started from her childhood growing up in Bourneville in Birmingham until she was 18.

Having studied Classical Civilisation during her time in education, because she had a great relationship with her teachers, she continued her path for her love in Greek and Latin mythology.

Natalie began her career as a standup comedian but due to missing her passions in the Greek and Latin mythology she wrote a book about ancient history in the modern world.

“Comedians use words more carefully, because you need to time words of when you think you will get a laugh otherwise you could damage a laugh, so constantly thinking in those terms.”

“I think being a standup comedian helped me engage in audiences attention, but I think its given me the ability to command peoples attention as an audience.”

Natalie had wanted her career and love for the ancient world to be accessible on multiple platforms so after contacting the BBC for two years they gave her a few episodes on her own talk show on the radio about ancient history, but interlinking female's perspectives.

The series will be available on BBC Radio 4 for seven weeks, beginning on July 22.

Having wanting to write novels, Natalie proceeded her yearning desire for writing and published her first book, ‘The Amber Fury’ in 2014, The Children of Jocasta in 2017 and ‘A Thousand Ships’ 2019 which was nominated for a women’s prize award became a bestseller in many countries, with her most recent book being ‘No Friends to this house’.

Natalie continued to share why Greek mythology will always come back to a contemporary audience.

Aristotle said there's a tragedy that it has unity of time and unity of place i.e. everything happens in one place.

When Natalie spoke to the writers of Eastenders, on their writing board their had lots of local newspaper print outs on their board and alongside were index cards which had Greek plays on as there's so much conflict from generation of a family where every action causes a reaction which means it will keep causing a reaction later on.

When they don’t know what storyline to follow they go back to the Greeks, because Greek tragedy gives you this constant renowning of parents and children, and siblings and siblings.

Sharing viewpoints from a female perspective is what Natalie has included because it had never been seem before in Greek mythology.

Academic work and books were majority written by men and not in a malevolent way they just didn’t think very much about women.

In European stories they used to be told verbally rather than written, the oldest European poems come from being spoken rather than written and then in writing form once it became more popular.