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What Are You Actually Singing In?
Archaeologists found a sculpture of someone posing as Hercules in a sewer. They think it might be Emperor Decius, who was Emperor of Rome from 249 to 251 AD. It would explain the far-road brow because apparently that was typical in statues of Roman emperors from the third century and reflect the time of crisis they were living through. We are actually away next week because Dominic is going to be singing his little heart out. But we will be back with a special episode marking a year since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine reflecting on the year it has been.
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