This program is the first in a series of programs that compares and contrasts the lives and the legacies of Constantine the Great and Jesus Christ, and how both have impacted the way we think and the way we live today. This first programme will focus on their births and their childhoods. Starting with Constantine’s inauspicious birth, we will then consider that of Jesus, and how, through his followers, he began to challenge the Empire with his teachings. This was a clash of empires that was to define the world we live in today.