Podcast: Pliny the Elder on In Our Time

If you can’t get the BBC iPlayer to work (I’m not sure it works outside of the UK; I thought it did), you can access this one via iTunes

Cleopatra Podcast Redux

Not sure why these weren’t showing up before, but it is clear the OUP blog’s Cleopatra Podcast, which we mentioned last week, has had two further installments (as you recall, these are connected to Duane Roller’s recent biography of the queen) … all three installments are available at:

Citanda: Cleopatra Podcast Series: Day 1

Black basalt statue of Ptolemaic queen Cleopat...
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The Oxford University Press blog seems to be running a series of podcasts about Cleopatra over the next few days (?). In this first installment, we have an interviewish thing with Duane Roller, who, of course, has recently written a biography of our favourite Alexandrian.

Classical ‘You Are There’ Podcasts

Some folks may know that Robert Culp passed on last week … a brief notice in Birmingham News mentioned, inter alia:

Culp’s career began in the 50s, when he appeared in “You Are There: The Death of Socrates.” His career spanned five decades, including both television and film.

… now I couldn’t find any of the television version, but I did find some nice podcasts of the radio version (which I think was called ‘CBS News Is There’). Here are the ones I’ve come across (I’ve only listened to the Socrates one at this point):

… the You Are There podcast site doesn’t seem to have been updated since summer of 2008; the above  (for the most part) seem to have appeared on more than one occasion; if a link doesn’t work, it might be relocated (?) …