BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Ancient Rome (original) (raw)
Ancient Rome
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the emperor who aimed to return Christian Rome to paganism
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21 Mar 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Holy Roman Emperor's army's notorious attack on Romans
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22 Feb 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man born in Republican Rome who became second Emperor.
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14 Dec 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet's celebration of agriculture and rural life
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18 May 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Eusebius of Caesarea and his stories of Christian martyrs.
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28 Apr 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential poets of Rome's Augustan Age.
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29 Apr 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an orthodox form of Christianity that became a heresy.
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15 Apr 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and meditations of 'the last good Roman emperor'.
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25 Feb 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scale and impact of the plague that raged in 541AD.
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21 Jan 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems of Catullus from the late Roman Republic
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09 Jan 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most notorious rulers of ancient Rome.
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25 Apr 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet Horace, who flourished under Augustus.
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15 Nov 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the relationship between slavery and the power of Rome.
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05 Apr 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his conversion to Christianity.
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15 Mar 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
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05 Oct 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works, life and times of Seneca the Younger.
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23 Feb 2017
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Romulus and Remus, the foundation myth of Rome.
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24 Jan 2013
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great impact of legal changes under emperor Justinian.
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17 Nov 2016
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Roman letter-writer Pliny the Younger.
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12 Dec 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Roman gladiator and rebel leader Spartacus.
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06 Mar 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and reputation of Julius Caesar.
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02 Oct 2014
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Flavius Josephus, author of The Jewish War.
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21 May 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman empress Agrippina the Younger.
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31 Mar 2016