The story of the city of Oxyrhynchus revealed in four parts through the 50,000 fragments of papyri found in its rubbish dumps.

The ancient Egyptian city vanished in the fourth century AD leaving no physical trace of its existence apart from its rubbish tips preserved by the sand. Michael Kustow finds out about the fascinating process of making sense of an ancient people through their waste paper. The readers are Fiona Shaw, Larry Lamb and Michael Perceval-Maxwell.