Paris the Pacifist? Paris just stressed, depressed and Helen obsessed? Paris the love warrior? This interview with Paris of Troy really changed my perspective on the man. He is more than the cowardly home wrecker that meets the eye. Ipso facto, Paris has

Apart from sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a freshwater system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? Victor Principe and I compare and contrast religion and plagues in Ancient and Modern Rome. E

'Therapy with Frida' delves under the skin of the iconic painter. The Daughter of the Mexican revolution. We discuss her self-portraits, her relationships with Diego Rivera and Trotsky, her communism, and the fatal moments that led to her famous quote “Do

Most people know her as the wife of Oscar Wilde, but Constance was a phenomenon in her own right. What most bypass is Constance’s invention of the divided skirt, her campaigns for women’s rights, and her pioneering fashion designs. Today I explore Constan

The tantalising thing about Cleopatra is that little evidence survives from century Egypt itself. So “The Cleoportrait” conquers Roman propaganda painting her as a debauched temptress using sex appeal as a political weapon. We ask her about her marriage t

'Go hard or Go Homer' explores homosexuality in Ancient Greece;  a homosexual Utopia or Peadophile Utopia? I also get Xenophon from 430BC, an aristocratic elite, and Socrates’s best mate into the studio to ask him about this love life.

So why do Philosophers get murdered? Socrates was minding his own beeswax (kind of) before he got poisoned with Hemlock. Today we talk to Hypatia, Alexandria's preeminent philosopher, and arguably the leading mathematician in the world up to this date. 33

Grove is in the heart explores the English language; steeped in history and bursting in character.  Do you ever hear expressions such as "Bee's Knees" and "Taste of your own medicine," and wonder what it all means? Ever been a curious George hearing