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Episode 2: Cleopatra

BBC Four

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 10^th Feb 2015, 21:00 on BBC FourLatest broadcast: Sun 20^th Oct 2019, 19:00 on BBC Four HD

Using the BBC film archives, Vanessa Collingridge explores how our view of Cleopatra has changed over the years, and how she has become lost amid myth, cliche and propaganda. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Vanessa Collingridge
Participant:: Jo Quinn
Participant:: Joyce Tyldesley
Participant:: Adrian Goldsworthy
Participant:: Mary Hamer
Executive Producer:: John Farren
Associate Producer:: Susannah Zeff
Series Producer:: James Gray
Director:: James Gray
Production Company:: 360 Production

Cleopatra and Me: In Search of a Lost Queen

BBC Four

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 6^th May 2019, 22:00 on BBC FourLatest broadcast: Wed 24^th Jun 2020, 00:55 on BBC Four HD

Was Cleopatra a seductress or a great politician? Shakespeare scholar Dr Islam Issa's exploration of why history and literature have recorded two very different Cleopatras. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Islam Issa
Interviewed Guest:: Paul Edmondson
Interviewed Guest:: Zahi Hawass
Interviewed Guest:: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Interviewed Guest:: Ahmed Issa
Interviewed Guest:: Josette Simon
Interviewed Guest:: Bryan Sitch
Interviewed Guest:: Joyce Tyldesley
Executive Producer:: Emma Parkins
Director:: Kieron Townend

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