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15 Minute Drama: How to Survive the Roman Empire, by Pliny and Me

Kieran Hodgson

Nigel Barrett

Joanna Scanlan

Ewan Bailey

Matthew Gravelle

Kate McAll

Hattie Naylor

15 Minute Drama: How to Survive the Roman Empire, by Pliny and Me: Episode 4

How to Survive the Roman Empire, by Pliny and Me

Episode 4

BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, How to Survive the Roman Empire, by Pliny and Me, Episode 4

Marcella's new slave, Sextus, isn't all that he seems.

Pliny is invited to the Palatine, where he finds out to his horror just how much the Emperor Domitian knows about him. By Hattie Naylor.

Pliny feels under threat from the Emperor Domitian more than ever when he is invited to the Palatine, and the room where the Emperor tortures flies. Meanwhile, Marcella has a new slave, Sextus, who has supplanted Venta in Marcella's affections. By Hattie Naylor, based on real events in first century Rome.

Pliny the Younger . . . Kieran Hodgson 
Venta . . . Nigel Barrett
Marcella . . . Joanna Scanlan
Emperor Domitian/Sextus . . . Ewan Bailey
Tacitus/Regulus . . . Matthew Gravelle

Music composed and performed by Pete Flood (percussion) with Laura Cannell (recorder, crumhorn), Rhodri Davies (Harp) and Paul Sartin (Oboe, Cor Anglais)

A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Third series of Hattie Naylor's drama, based on real events in Rome in the 1st century AD.

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