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Battle of Artemisium
Episode 13
Around this time 2,499 years ago the famous Battle of Thermopylae was raging. But it is important to remember that this clash was not happening on it…
6 years ago
Battle of Thermopylae
Episode 12
2,499 years ago the Persian 'Great King' Xerxes launched history's largest amphibious invasion of Europe before D-Day. Accompanied by a huge army and…
6 years ago
War Elephants
Episode 11
Move over Hannibal. More over Carthage. This podcast is all about a much BIGGER elephant power in antiquity. A power that, at its height, stretched f…
6 years ago
'Killing for the Roman Republic'
Episode 10
In 281/280 BC, the Hellenistic King Pyrrhus ventured to southern Italy to aid the Italiote-Greek city of Tarentum against a rising power based in cen…
6 years ago
Combat Trauma
Episode 9
From the 2000 historical blockbuster 'Gladiator' to the Total War series, brutal hand to hand warfare is something we commonly associate with antiqui…
6 years ago
Stone Circles
Episode 8
From Cornwall to Orkney, stone circles are scattered throughout the length and breadth of the British Isles. Their history stretches more than 2 mill…
6 years ago
Agrippina the Younger
Episode 7
Agrippina the Younger (AD 15 - 59) was one of the most prominent women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Born during a time of radical political change …
6 years, 1 month ago
Horse Archery
Episode 6
The horse archer was one of the most feared warriors of antiquity. Triumphing mobility and fluidity, these swift skirmishers came to epitomise a fear…
6 years, 1 month ago
Antonine Wall
Episode 5
In c.142 AD the Emperor Antoninus Pius ordered the construction of a new wall in Northern Britain. Situated between the Firth of Forth and the Firth …
6 years, 1 month ago
Housesteads and Hadrian's Wall
Episode 4
Housesteads Roman Fort is one of the great, surviving treasures of Roman Britain. Once an auxiliary fort, it occupied a dominant position on Hadrian’…
6 years, 1 month ago