This week, we drop in on a conversation between Mary Beard and two former TLS editors; and Anne Enright joins us to talk about turning poet in her new novel.

'Emperor of Rome: Ruling the ancient Roman world', by Mary Beard

'Big Caesars and little Caesars: How they rise and how they fall -

from Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson', by Ferdinand Mount

'Palatine: An alternative history of the Caesars', by Peter Stothard

'The Wren, The Wren', by Anne Enright

Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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