Knowing how widely eye-witness accounts differ even today, can we -with any degree of certainty-get at the facts of Ancient History?
M. I. Finley , Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge, talks to Oliver Hunkin describing how a historian collects his evidence, but confessing to a nagging voice that he may have got it wrong.
Director SIMON WADLEIGH
(An extract from this programme will be in THE LISTENER of 21 August)