Ancient Rome
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- Posted6 February
The Long View. Aged Premiers. Audio, 28 minutes
Jonathan Freedland takes the Long View on elderly leaders.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
You're Dead to Me. Agrippina the Younger (Radio Edit) Audio, 28 minutes
Greg Jenner takes us back to first-century Rome to meet Agrippina the Younger.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
You're Dead to Me. Ancient Athenian Democracy (Radio Edit) Audio, 29 minutes
Join Greg in Ancient Greece as we examine the start of democracy with the Athenians.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted28 July 2023
Scarlett Moffatt Wants to Believe. Let's Go To... Ancient Rome. Audio, 30 minutes
Why did the Romans love purple? Which bodily fluid was taxed? Gladiator sweat for sale?
- AttributionBBC Radio 1
- Available for over a year
5 Live Science Podcast. What can the Earth tell us about itself? Audio, 53 minutes
Dr Chris Smith with the latest science news and a look at the science of tectonics.
- AttributionBBC Radio 5 Live
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Why Coups Fail. Audio, 28 minutes
Natalie Haynes explores why overthrowing a government by force is not as easy as it looks.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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- Posted10 January 2023
The Forum. The Cynics: Counter-culture from Ancient Greece. Audio, 40 minutes
Itinerant philosophers who advocated leading radically simplified lives.
- AttributionBBC World Service
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- Posted11 December 2022
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- Posted24 November 2022
In Our Time. Demosthenes' Philippics. Audio, 57 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speeches that set the standard for political attacks.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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- Attribution
- Posted9 November 2022
Arts & Ideas. New Thinking: Dead Languages. Audio, 45 minutes
John Gallagher says hello in Oscan, the language of Ancient Pompeii
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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- Posted6 October 2022
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- Posted24 June 2022
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- Posted28 May 2022
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- Posted7 May 2022
The Essay. Unearthing Britannia's Tribes, The Roman Orbit. Audio, 14 minutes
Guy de la Bédoyère explores the integration of tribal Britain into the Roman world.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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- Attribution
- Posted17 November 2021
Detoxifying the Classics. Audio, 28 minutes
Katherine Harloe explores the appropriation of ancient Greece and Rome by hate groups.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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- Posted16 May 2021
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- Posted11 May 2021
