Roman True Crime

Natalie takes on a truly cold case, the unsolved murder of a woman called Regilla in 2nd century Rome. She's aided by detectives Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five, and Llewelyn Morgan. Regilla's husband, Herodes Atticus, was accused of the crime but acquitted, so after looking into the evidence Hallie and Llewelyn give their verdicts and then the audience makes the final judgement.

'Rockstar mythologist' Natalie Haynes is the bestselling author of Divine Might, Stone Blind, A Thousand Ships and No Friend to This House as well as a reformed comedian who is a little bit obsessive about ancient Greece and Rome.

Hallie Rubenhold is a historian and a prizewinning, bestselling author. Her book The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper focused on the victims’ biographies rather than speculating on their killer.

Llewelyn Morgan is a Professor of Classics at Oxford University, and he is interested in basically anything written in Latin. He has written two Very Short Introductions to Roman poets, one on Ovid and one on Horace.

Producer Beth O'Dea