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Emma Southon
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Roman Historian
Thank you! It's been fixed now so if you refresh the feed the new audio should be there!
November 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Someone with a worm in their brain I reckon. It can't be the judges because they are both elderly women who seem to be there under duress
November 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Ewa on a show called Britain's Best Knitter, yesterday they made them crochet a deck chair. It's INSANE.
November 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Yes because it really is fascinatingly bad. Like every single part of it is so misguided and wrong and WEIRD. Unfortunately it's so terrible I can't look away.
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Yeah central Asia is always the middle of someone else's story and never seems to be the centre of their own
November 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
You make a fine and fair point but what if someone did it for me
November 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Yeah it feels a bit like if all that ever got written about the Roman empire was entirely from the perspective of two towns in Belgium
November 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Yeah they didn't really except monumental inscriptions which means that the greek penchant for a rip roaring narrative overwhelms everything else
November 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Anyway listen and learn about Arses bsky.app/profile/fall...
⛰️🏔️ Episode 20 is now live! 🏔️⛰️

In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.

YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I do wish it was possible to tell the Persian story narratively without such heavy emphasis on Greece though
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
truly, I do
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Love when you can see the studio notes on the screen. I just know that one suit somewhere at Netflix cannot handle ambiguity in any form.
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"You've spelled "Onesimus" 6 different ways on this page. Which is right?"
November 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A bit older than that thankfully. I simply do not have it in my to care for a toddler for more than an hour!
October 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Unfortunately she has 4 other kids so I'm not sure one being missing makes too much difference! My nephew had a brilliant time being an only child for a few days tho
October 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
It's good to do this once a year to remind myself that I am simply not cut out for parenthood
October 29, 2025 at 7:16 AM