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Beneath the togas and the pungent fug of gladiator sweat are real Romans waiting to be discovered. Mary Beard introduces her six part series on the people of the Roman Empire. Show more
From official team doctor to the gladiators to personal GP to emperors, Galen had a talent for medicine and social climbing. But could his life's work be wiped out by fire? Show more
28 minutes
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On Hadrian’s Wall a slave girl from Hertfordshire and a lonely traveller from Syria meet and marry. Their story inspires poets and artists, but is this true love or exploitation? Show more
Beneath starched togas and the fug of gladiator sweat there are real Romans waiting to be discovered. Mary Beard meets a woman fighting for her family in a vicious civil war. Show more
An 11 year old boy takes to the stage to recite a poem in front of 7000 people, with the Emperor watching from the front row. Mary Beard tells the story of a child prodigy of Rome. Show more
From official team doctor to the gladiators to personal GP to emperors, Galen had a talent for medicine and social climbing. But could his life's work be wiped out by fire? Show more
An 11 year old boy takes to the stage to recite a poem in front of 7000 people, with the Emperor watching from the front row. Mary Beard tells the story of a child prodigy of Rome. Show more
On Hadrian’s Wall a slave girl from Hertfordshire and a lonely traveller from Syria meet and marry. Their story inspires poets and artists, but is this true love or exploitation? Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Beneath starched togas and the fug of gladiator sweat there are real Romans waiting to be discovered. Mary Beard meets the savvy operator who cleaned up after Boudicca's revolt. Show more
28 minutes
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Mary Beard joins the Emperor Hadrian, his wife Sabina, his young male lover Antinous and his court poet, Julia Balbilla on one of the strangest cruises in the history of Rome. Show more
28 minutes
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Mary Beard meets the young Roman soldier who spends more time shopping than fighting. Could he ruin the image of the Roman army as a ruthlessly efficient machine of conquest? Show more
28 minutes
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Join Mary Beard for a Roman bar crawl through the streets of Pompeii. With all but the wealthiest urban Romans unable to cook at home it was the bars where life really went on. Show more
28 minutes
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Two men, one woman. All three hopelessly devoted to each other. Apparently. Mary digs into an unconventional love story from ancient Rome. Show more
29 minutes
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Beneath starched togas and the fug of gladiator sweat there are real Romans waiting to be discovered. Mary Beard meets the philosopher emperor, Marcus Aurelius Show more
28 minutes
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Beneath starched togas and the fug of gladiator sweat there are real Romans waiting to be discovered. Mary Beard meets a woman fighting for her family in a vicious civil war. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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An 11-year-old boy takes to the stage to recite a poem in front of 7000 people, with the Emperor watching from the front row. Mary Beard tells the story of a child prodigy of Rome. Show more
28 minutes
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150 receipts, carbonised in the ruins of Pompeii, reveal the economic life of the city- and the profitable life of the local moneylender Show more
27 minutes
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From official team doctor to the gladiators to personal GP to emperors, Galen had a talent for medicine and social climbing. But could his life's work be wiped out by fire? Show more
27 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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What does it take to run an empire? Armies and slaves, of course, but also bureaucrats. Meet Roman Egypt's very own David Brent, desperately trying to hold together an empire. Show more
