Natalie Haynes takes a fresh look at the ancient world, creating a stand-up routine about a figure from ancient Greece or Rome. Stars Natalie Haynes and Edith Hall.
The host returns to create more comedy routines about figures from ancient Greece or Rome, with Adam Rutherford and Edith Hall helping to explore the life of Aristotle.
This week Natalie explores why it's so easy to fall in love with Aristotle, have fun with his Nicomachean ethics and how we know he had 20:20 vision. It seems he hated being tutor to Alexander the Great, although he did manage to stay alive in the lethal court of Philip of Macedon, where the usual toll of suspicious deaths was fourteen a week. But how much did he really know about elephants tongues and bivalves on Lesbos? We love a bit of gossip from a couple of thousand years ago.
