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Martial's Rome
The Latin poetry of Martial is famous for its vivid and bawdy portrait of the people who lived in ancient Rome. Now Australian poet Peter Porter has produced translations which bring these racy Latin epigrams, and the people in them, back to life.
In tonight's film Martial, played by John Ronane, recites his work and supplies his own running commentary. It's a performance to remind us that Martial is one of the great poets of Rome's Silver Age

Too much damned architecture...
So says Stockholm-based British architect Ralph Erskine who for 30 years has been building cold-weather houses the Swedes love to live in. Review sent John Vaughan to see Erskine and film his work, from a new community at Clare Hall, Cambridge, to miners' homes at Svappavaara on the Arctic Circle.