Bestselling author, stand-up comedian, and broadcaster Natalie Haynes is the closest thing the world of classical academia ...
Natalie Haynes is one of a new group of writers reclaiming women's voices from ancient literature. Along with authors such as Pat Barker and Madeline Miller, she's telling new versions of the ...
Natalie Haynes tells stories of the most beautiful woman in the world, who hatched from an egg and was the daughter of Zeus: Helen of Troy. Men fought over her from an early age, but was she really to ...
Are you a touch narcissistic? Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus.
The story of Medusa as you've never heard it before. The new novel by the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships. Read by Susannah Fielding.
Natalie Haynes tells the stories of the handful of Roman-British women whose traces stay with us: a fierce queen, a slave woman freed for love, the so-called 'Ivory Bangle Lady' and Claudia Severa, ...
When an itinerant farm hand is found dead it's chalked up as a brawl gone tragically wrong - but Miss Marple refuses to accept this simple solution... Read by Monica Dolan.
Natalie Haynes considers the work of the Roman poet Virgil, ranging from his hints on bee-keeping to his great work The Aeneid. Dido is the classic wronged woman and the Aeneid contains the best ...
Join Natalie Haynes and guests for half an hour of comedy and the Classics from the BBC Radio Theatre in London. Natalie is a reformed comedian who is a little bit obsessive about Ancient Greece and ...
The worst dinner party in history. Natalie investigates the work of the writer Petronius, creator of the infamous Satyricon, later made into a film by Fellini. It's all about excess; as a vegetarian, ...