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 ...

Are you a touch narcissistic? Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus.

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

Natalie examines the life of Cleopatra: a brilliant politician, a ruthless leader and a massive brain-box. But she probably didn't look like Elizabeth Taylor.