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Enthralling: BBC4’s Colosseum reviewed

I usually find watching anything made by the BBC as appetising as being burned at the stake – but this particular series is the kind of thing TV was made for

The BBC4 series uses the particularity of the Colosseum to educate us about the generality of Roman imperial history. [Image: BBC / October Films / A+E Networks]

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