Roman emperors and football managers

The world is being slowly poisoned, the environment destroyed. Why don’t we care about such an apocalypse more? Clare Saxby joins us to discuss; Mary Beard considers the cultural legacy of Caligula, that most reviled of all emperors, via a revisionist work of fiction told from the perspective of the emperor's exiled sister; as Arsène Wenger's twenty-two year tenure as Arsenal manager draws to a close, the TLS's History editor and Arsenal fan David Horspool shares his thoughts on football's modern myth-makingBooks  Mourning Nature: Hope at the heart of ecological loss and grief, edited by Ashlee and Karen Landman CunsoloWalking on Lava: Selected works for uncivilised times, edited by Charlotte Du Cann, Dougald Hine, Nick Hunt and Paul KingsnorthEnergy Humanities: An anthology, edited by Imre Szeman and Dominic BoyerCaligula by Simon Turney Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.