The Long Sunset — Fall of the Roman Empire

Teotihuacan — the great planned city of the Valley of Mexico — was at its height the largest city in the ancient Americas, contemporary with imperial Rome, holding perhaps a hundred thousand people in...

6 Okt 1h 2min

A long bedtime episode for The Slow Ages on the Maya — the people who built a civilisation around counting time, and who kept that count for four thousand years. We begin on the shore of a great shall...

6 Okt 1h 13min

Rome: how one river town became the world. A slow, unhurried reading of the longest climb in history — from the mud huts of the Palatine and the twins and the wolf, through the kings and the Etruscan ...

4 Okt 2h 28min

The Celts and the Gauls: widespread tribal societies across Western Europe, known for their fine metalwork and a restless, curving art, who left almost nothing written. A slow, unhurried reading of th...

3 Okt 1h 15min

West of Rome, on the low hills of the Tiber plain, a city of white tufa waits in the dusk. It has no name you can yet say — and it will take a long time to understand what you are standing in. This is...

3 Okt 1h 6min

On the shore of the Aegean, a little over two and a half thousand years ago, a handful of small, quarrelling city-states gave the world democracy, philosophy, and the temple. This is the story of the ...

1 Okt 1h 19min

Two soft mounds on a plain in the Argolid, where the land asks nothing of you and travellers look straight through. But those mounds are not natural at all â they are the oldest fortresses of mainland...

1 Okt 1h 8min

A long, low, quiet episode, for the edge of sleep: the Minoans of Crete, the people of the first great palaces of the Mediterranean, and the sea they ruled by trade rather than by fleet. We begin in t...

30 Sep 1h 1min