First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Emma Fielding reads the history of Vesuvius. Pliny the Younger describes the 79 AD eruption, and the city of Naples puts its faith in the liquefaction of the blood of San Gennaro. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Emma Fielding reads. Industrialist, James Naysmith and polymath, Mary Somerville are fascinated by the volcano and scientists are trapped in its observatory during an eruption. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Emma Fielding reads the history of 'Vesuvius'. The volcano ensnares Bishop Berkeley, William Hamilton, Neapolitan nobility and the Grand Tourists of the eighteenth century. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Emma Fielding reads the history of 'Vesuvius'. Shelley and Dickens visit the volcano and scientists Faraday and Davy feast on its slopes in celebration of Napoleon's defeat. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Emma Fielding reads 'Vesuvius'. Tourists view casts of fleeing victims of Vesuvius in Pompeii. After the 1944 eruption, what does the future hold for the inhabitants of Naples? Show more
