One fine day in AD 70, scruffy, working-class informer Marcus Didius Falco literally runs into a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl on the steps of the Forum. Sosia Camillina is on the run from a...

Christian Rodska reads this complete, full-length Falco novel, by bestselling author Lindsey Davis.

In the high summer of 77AD, Marcus Didius Falco is beset by personal problems. Newly...

It is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. The days are short, the nights are for wild parties. A general has captured a famous enemy of Rome and brings her home to adorn his Triumph as a ritual...

Falco and Helena hear that a young girl and a newly-wed woman, both Roman visitors, have been murdered at Olympia. The authorities will not investigate properly, so Falco steps in.

Lindsey Davis' 16th novel in the bestselling Marcus Didius Falco series is a tale of scandal, piracy and deception. The scribe of the Daily Gazette's gossip column is missing, and Falco has been...

Marcus Didius Falco and his friend Petronius find their local fountain has been blocked - by a severed human hand. Soon other body parts are being found in the aqueducts & sewers. The Aventine...

Ancient Rome, 73AD, and inimitable sleuth Marcus Didius Falco is back with a vengeance. In one night, a man is killed and Rome's Chief of Spies left for dead. Naturally there is no one except...

Anton Lesser and Anna Madeley star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the fourth novel in Lindsey Davis's bestselling series featuring Roman private eye Falco.The Iron Hand of Mars...

Anton Lesser and Anna Madeley star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Lindsey Davis’s second bestselling ‘Falco’ novel featuring the Roman detective.Rome, AD 71. Against his...

Returning to Rome after his mission to Germania, Falco finds that his mother is being harassed by a centurion named Censorinus, who says he is chasing a debt owed to him by Falco’s brother...

In the heyday of the Roman Empire, a small accounting error has left Marcus Didius Falco sharing a cell with a large rat. But the Empire's most hard-done-by investigator is finally bailed out, and...

A story of love, loss and redemption set in the classical world of Rome and Greece, 'Of Merchants and Heroes' tells of a young man's pursuit of his father's murderer and of the values and...

What caused the financial mess we're in? And how do we get out of it? Two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th century had sharply contrasting views. John Maynard Keynes believed that...

A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love... A year unlike any other...

The second of three BBC Radio plays by Mike Walker chronicling the Plantagenet dynasty, inspired by Holinshed's 'Chronicles'. In 'Edward the Second - The Greatest Traitor', while Edward's power is...

The third of three BBC Radio plays by Mike Walker chronicling the Plantagenet dynasty, inspired by Holinshed's 'Chronicles'. In 'Richard the Second - And All Our Dreams Will End In Death', Richard...

In 'The Mauritius Command', Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command until his friend, occasional intelligence agent, Stephen Maturin, arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to...

This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and...