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Professor Mary Beard embarks on an investigative journey to explore the life and times of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus - better known as Caligula. He has become known as Rome's most capricious tyrant, and the stories told about him are some of the most extraordinary...

Sir Derek Jacobi remembers the landmark 1976 TV series 'I, Claudius'.

Claudius, while writing his biography, recalls the history of his family. In Rome 24 AD, Augustus celebrates the anniversary of the defeat of Agrippa and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, and seems to be preparing to make his nephew his heir.