Caesar!


Caesar! is a set of British radio plays set in ancient Rome and written by Mike Walker for the Classic Serial strand. The first series was based on Suetonius's Lives of the Caesars - later series covered later emperors.

Series

Series 1

  1. Meeting at Formiae - 13 July 2003 - On Julius Caesar and his dealings with Cicero and Cato the Younger
  2. The Arena - 20 July 2003 - On the early career of Octavian, also featuring Jasmine Hyde as Livia and with Richard Johnson as the remembering adult Augustus
  3. Peeling Figs for Julius - 27 July 2003 - On Caligula, also featuring George Baker as Tiberius, whom he had previously played in I, Claudius.

Series 2

  1. The Best of Mothers - 17 July 2005 - On Nero and his mother Agrippina the Younger
  2. The Glass Ball Game - 24 July 2005 - On Hadrian and his relationship with his lover Antinous, his wife Sabina and the historian Suetonius
  3. Citizens in a Great City - 31 July 2005 - On the reigns of Marcus Aurelius, Commodus and Septimius Severus, also featuring Severus' wife Julia Domna.

Series 3

  1. Empress in the West - 25 February 2007 - On the life of Victoria and the Gallic Empire under the rule of Postumus and her son Victorinus
  2. The Maker of All Things - 4 March 2007 - On Constantine the Great and his son Crispus, also featuring Constantine's second wife Fausta
  3. An Empire Without End - 11 March 2007 - On Romulus Augustulus