Robert Jobson: Caesar's writings on gallic warse se tis are a manifesto. He was trying to persuade the people of rome that he was the best man to run them, and it worked. Join us for season three of a very merry, iconic podcast. We're going to cover four christmases with fins vaughan and reeswitherspoon.
The flood of people out of cities is unlike anything since the suburbanisation of the 1950s; we examine the inevitable economic and political consequences. After years of reporting our correspondent concludes that the mutual disdain of a country’s northern and southern halves is a curious human universal. And a sojourn to fact-check Julius Caesar’s accounts of his triumphs in France.
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