Here is a list of resources from In Our Time, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, and various other programmes – largely BBC-sourced because they are easy to find and generally reliable. If you know of others, or spot errors or omissions, please let me know!
Syllabus components (link to the OCR specification)
– World of the Hero (H408/11)
– Greek Theatre (H408/21)
– Imperial Image (H408/22)
– Invention of the Barbarian (H408/23)
– Greek Art (H408/24)
– Greek Religion (H408/31)
– Love and Relationships (H408/32)
– Politics of the Late Republic (H408/33)
– Democracy and the Athenians (H408/34)
The World of the Hero (H408/11)
The Epic – with John Carey, Karen Edwards, and Oliver Taplin (6 February 2003)
Start the Week – Kate Tempest: Everyday Epic
The Muses – with Paul Cartledge, Angie Hobbs, and Penelope Murray (19 May 2016)
The Iliad – with Edith Hall, Barbara Graziosi, and Paul Cartledge (13 September 2018)
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – The Iliad (2020)
The Trojan War – with Edith Hall, Ellen Adams, and Susan Sherratt (31 May 2012)
Heritage – Troy (BBC World Service programme)
Woman’s Hour – Helen of Troy (35:22 – end) with Bettany Hughes and Edith Hall
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Helen of Troy (2020)
The Odyssey – with Simon Goldhill, Edith Hall, and Oliver Taplin (9 September 2004)
The Road Home – Remaking Homer’s Odyssey (with Tom Holland)
Borders, An Odyssey – three episodes exploring the Odyssey and its themes, with Edith Hall, Helen Sharman, and others
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Penelope (2020)
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Odyssey (2022)
The Aeneid – with Edith Hall, Philip Hardie and Catharine Edwards (21 April 2005)
Front Row – Seamus Heaney’s The Aeneid (0:45 – 9:52)
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Virgil (2014)
Greek Theatre (H408/21)
Tragedy – with George Steiner and Catherine Belsey (2 December 1999)
Start the Week – Simon Armitage on Greek Tragedy
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Sophocles (2014)
Aristotle’s Poetics – with Angie Hobbs, Nick Lowe, and Stephen Halliwell (27 January 2011)
The Oresteia – with Edith Hall, Simon Goldhill and Tom Healy (29 December 2005)
Free Thinking – Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Edith Hall on the Oresteia
Also: Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Clytemnestra (2020)
The Bacchae – with Edith Hall, Emily Wilson, and Rosie Wyles (18 March 2021)
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Euripides (2019)
Thebes – with Edith Hall, Samuel Gartland and Paul Cartledge (23 November 2017)
Comedy in Ancient Greek Theatre – with Paul Cartledge, Edith Hall, and Nick Lowe (13 July 2006)
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Aristophanes (2016)
Imperial Image (H408/22)
The Augustan Age – with Mary Beard, Catharine Edwards, and Duncan Kennedy (11 June 2009)
Julius Caesar – with Christopher Pelling, Catherine Steel and Maria Wyke (2 October 2014)
The Forum – The rise and fall of Julius Caesar (23 September 2017)
Horace – with Emily Gowers, William Fitzgerald, and Ellen O’Gorman (15 November 2018)
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Horace (6 August 2018)
Ovid – with Maria Wyke, Gail Trimble, and Dunstan Lowe (29 April 2021)
Archive on 4 – Ovid in Changing Times, with Tom Holland
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Ovid (2016)
Metamorphosis – with A S Byatt and Catherine Bates (2 March 2000)
Greek and Roman Love Poetry – with Nick Lowe, Edith Hall, and Maria Wyke (26 April 2007)
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest – with Peter Heather, Ellen O’Gorman, and Matthew Nicholls (13 February 2020)
Cultural Imperialism – with Linda Colley, Phillip Dodd, and Mary Beard (27 June 2002)
Invention of the Barbarian (H408/23)
Herodotus – with Paul Cartledge, Esther Eidinow, and Tom Harrison (23 September 2021)
History of History – with Paul Cartledge, John Burrow, and Miri Rubin (22 January 2009)
Night Waves – Herodotus, with Tom Holland (14:21 – 22:55)
Democracy – with Melissa Lane, David Wootton, and Tim Winter (18 October 2001)
Democracy on Trial, with Michael Portillo
What is Democracy? – History of Democracy, from BBC World Service
Thermopylae – with Simon Goldhill, Edith Hall, and Tom Holland (5 February 2004)
The Battle of Salamis – with Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Lindsay Allen, and Paul Cartledge (23 March 2017)
You’re Dead to Me – The Battle of Salamis (full version) (Radio Edit) (31 July 2020)
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Euripides (2019)
The Amazons – with Paul Cartledge, Chiara Franceschini and Caroline Vout (11 April 2013)
Start the Week – The Amazons, with Adrienne Mayor
Everywoman – The Real Amazons
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Penthesilea, Amazon Warrior Queen (2020)
Persepolis – with Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Lindsay Allen (7 June 2018)
Masterpiece – Persepolis Regained, from BBC World Service
Babylon – with Eleanor Robson, Irving Finkel and Andrew George (3 June 2004)
The Library at Nineveh – with Eleanor Robson, Karen Radner, and Andrew R. George (15 May 2008)
Greek Art (H408/24)
Pericles – with Edith Hall, Peter Cartledge and Peter Liddel (17 September 2020)
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Aspasia (2014)
The Greek Myths – with Nick Lowe, Richard Buxton, and Mary Beard (13 March 2008)
Greek Myths in Scots – Scottish Schools 2nd Level
Natalie Haynes Stands up for the Classics – Medusa, Pandora, Jocasta (2020)
The Trojan War – with Edith Hall, Ellen Adams, and Susan Sherratt (31 May 2012)
Heritage – Troy (BBC World Service programme)
Woman’s Hour – Helen of Troy (35:22 – end) with Bettany Hughes and Edith Hall
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Helen of Troy (2020)
Greek Religion (H408/31)
The Oath – with Alan Sommerstein, Paul Cartledge and Mary Beard (5 January 2006)
The Examined Life – with A. C. Grayling, Janet Radcliffe Richards, and Julian Baggini (9 May 2002)
The Trojan War – with Edith Hall, Ellen Adams, and Susan Sherratt (31 May 2012)
Heritage – Troy (BBC World Service programme)
The Delphic Oracle – with Paul Cartledge, Edith Hall, and Nick Lowe (30 September 2010)
Socrates – with Angie Hobbs, David Sedley and Paul Millett (27 September 2007)
Four Thought – Jules Evans on Socrates and Psychotherapy
Plato’s Republic – with Angie Hobbs, MM McCabe, and James Warren (29 June 2017)
The Cave – Plato’s Cave, a philosophical reflection with Alan Read
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Plato (2016)
Love and Relationships (H408/32)
Plato’s Symposium – with Angie Hobbs, Richard Hunter, and Frisbee Sheffield (3 January 2014)
A History of Ideas – Edith Hall on Aristophanes in Plato
Free Thinking – Plato’s Symposium: Part of Gay Britannia
Plato’s Republic – with Angie Hobbs, MM McCabe, and James Warren (29 June 2017)
The Cave – Plato’s Cave, a philosophical reflection with Alan Read
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Plato
Socrates – with Angie Hobbs, David Sedley and Paul Millett (27 September 2007)
Four Thought – Jules Evans on Socrates and Psychotherapy
Seneca the Younger – with Mary Beard, Catharine Edwards, and Alessandro Schiesaro (23 February 2017)
A History of Ideas – Catharine Edwards on Seneca and Facing Death
Nero – with Maria Wyke, Matthew Nicholls, and Shushma Malik (25 April 2019)
Great Lives – Nero, with Christopher Biggins
Agrippina the Younger – with Catharine Edwards, Alice König, and Matthew Nicholls (31 March 2016)
You’re Dead to Me – Agrippina the Younger (15 January 2021)
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Agrippina (2 May 2016)
Stoicism – with Angie Hobbs, Jonathan Rée and David Sedley (3 March 2005)
Night Waves – Stoicism Week, with Jules Evans, Edith Hall, and Mark Vernon (25:43 – 41:17)
Epicureanism – with Angie Hobbs, David Sedley and James Warren (7 February 2013)
Greek and Roman Love Poetry – with Nick Lowe, Edith Hall, and Maria Wyke (26 April 2007)
Sappho – with Edith Hall, Margaret Reynolds, and Dirk Obbink (9 April 2015)
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Series 3: Sappho
Great Lives – Series 22: Sappho (Bettany Hughes)
Ovid – with Maria Wyke, Gail Trimble, and Dunstan Lowe (29 April 2021)
Archive on 4 – Ovid in Changing Times, with Tom Holland
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Ovid (2016)
The Augustan Age – with Mary Beard, Catharine Edwards, and Duncan Kennedy (11 June 2009)
Politics of the Late Republic (H408/33)
The Roman Republic – with Greg Woolf, Catherine Steel and Tom Holland (30 December 2004)
Stoicism – with Angie Hobbs, Jonathan Rée and David Sedley (3 March 2005)
Night Waves – Stoicism Week, with Jules Evans, Edith Hall, and Mark Vernon (25:43 – 41:17)
Julius Caesar – with Christopher Pelling, Catherine Steel and Maria Wyke (2 October 2014)
The Forum – The rise and fall of Julius Caesar (23 September 2017)
Cicero – with Melissa Lane, Catherine Steel and Valentina Arena (25 January 2018)
A History of Political Thought – Cicero and Augustine
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Cicero – Cicero (2018)
Cleopatra – with Catharine Edwards, Maria Wyke and Susan Walker (2 December 2010)
The Forum – Who was the real Cleopatra? (20 October 2018)
Rome and European Civilisation – with Mary Beard, Catharine Edwards, and Greg Woolf (20 December 2001)
Democracy and the Athenians (H408/34)
Democracy – with Melissa Lane, David Wootton, and Tim Winter (18 October 2001)
Democracy on Trial, with Michael Portillo
What is Democracy? – History of Democracy, from BBC World Service
Pericles – with Edith Hall, Peter Cartledge and Peter Liddel (17 September 2020)
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Aspasia (2014)
Plato’s Republic – with Angie Hobbs, MM McCabe, and James Warren (29 June 2017)
The Cave – Plato’s Cave, a philosophical reflection with Alan Read
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Plato (2016)
Socrates – with Angie Hobbs, David Sedley, and Paul Millett (27 September 2007)
Comedy in Ancient Greek Theatre – with Paul Cartledge, Edith Hall, and Nick Lowe (13 July 2006)
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Aristophanes (2016)
Thucydides – with Paul Cartledge, Katherine Harloe, and Neville Morley (29 January 2015)
The Mytilenaean Debate – with Angie Hobbs, Lisa Irene Hau, and Paul Cartledge (20 June 2019)
The Oresteia – with Edith Hall, Simon Goldhill and Tom Healy (29 December 2005)
Free Thinking – Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Edith Hall on the Oresteia
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Clytemnestra (2020)
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Euripides (2019)
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