Matthew Nicholls
Senior Tutor at St. John's College, University of Oxford
5 episodes
Appears in multiple episodes with: Shushma Malik
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Tiberius
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the means by which Tiberius became the first Roman to succeed an Emperor and his reputation for financial prudence, cruelty and breeding paranoia.
14 December 2023
Also featuring: Shushma Malik, Catherine Steel
HistoryRoman pharaohsClaudii Nerones, Roman-era Olympic competitors1st-century Roman emperorsPeople in the canonical gospelsAncient Roman military personnel, Burials at the Mausoleum of Augustus1st-century BC RomansAncient Roman adopteesJulii CaesaresRoman quaestorsAncient Roman triumphatorsJulio-Claudian dynastyBattle of the Teutoburg Forest
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Germanic tribes' destruction of three legions of the Roman general Varus in 9 AD, so limiting the expansion of the Roman Empire across the Rhine
13 February 2020
Also featuring: Ellen O'Gorman, Peter Heather
Nero
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the reputation of Nero, popular with his subjects but vilified in his lifetime and after and associated with the Beast in the Book of Revelation.
25 April 2019
Also featuring: Maria Wyke, Shushma Malik
Agrippina the Younger
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman empress Agrippina the Younger, one of the most notorious and influential of the Roman empresses in the 1st century AD.
31 March 2016
Also featuring: Catharine Edwards, Alice König
The Library of Alexandria
Melvyn Bragg and guests Simon Goldhill, Serafina Cuomo and Matthew Nichols discuss the Library of Alexandria, one of the greatest libraries in history.
12 March 2009
Also featuring: Simon Goldhill, Serafina Cuomo