podcast

Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics

by BBC Radio 4

The Aeneid

02.09.2025 • 00:27:52

In a tour de force solo performance, Natalie takes on Virgil's great poem in 28 minutes.. and wins. In 12 books of Latin verse we follow the hero, th...

Hestia

26.08.2025 • 00:27:42

The overlooked Olympian who was the resolutely unmarried goddess of the hearth and home. In fact, Zeus awarded her a glorious gift for remaining unmar...

Catullus

19.08.2025 • 00:27:52

The brilliant Roman love poet is the poster boy for teen angst. He feels everything intensely, from the stealing of his favourite napkin to the death ...

Hera

12.08.2025 • 00:27:56

The Queen of the Olympian gods is swallowed whole by her father at birth and then marries her brother Zeus, who turns himself into a cuckoo to seduce ...

The Women Poets of Ancient Greece

05.08.2025 • 00:28:00

Natalie is joined by Edith Hall and Nikita Gill to tell the stories of the Nine Earthly Muses, the most admired Greek women poets. They are Sappho, My...

Alexandria: The Library

29.07.2025 • 00:27:30

Natalie is joined by Professors Islam Issa and Edith Hall to tell the story of the great library of Alexandria. It was included in Alexander the Grea...

Alexandria: The City

22.07.2025 • 00:27:29

Natalie is joined by Professors Islam Issa and Edith Hall to tell the story of the ancient city of Alexandria. Located on the Nile Delta, this specta...

Saturnalia

27.12.2024 • 00:27:30

No togas today please. Natalie celebrates the mid-winter festival of Ancient Rome, Saturnalia. According to Catullus, it's the 'best of days'. Ex...

Tacitus

12.08.2024 • 00:27:31

Tacitus is the great historian of imperial Rome. His writing is beautiful, unsettling, extraordinarily persuasive. We know many of his likes and dis...

Aesop

05.08.2024 • 00:27:42

Aesop is probably the most famous author from antiquity, judging by the ongoing sales of his fables about animals. It should be easy to do a show abo...