PLAY PODCASTS
The Book Club: Peter Stothard

The Book Club: Peter Stothard

Best of the Spectator · The Spectator

October 5, 202240m 20s

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (sphinx.acast.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Show Notes

<div>My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Peter Stothard, whose new book <em>Crassus: The First Tycoon</em> tells the story of the third man in Rome’s great triumvirate: landlord, power-broker, Spartacus’s nemesis and leader of a hubristic expedition to the east that was to see his glorious career end in bitter failure.<br><br>Image © Teri Pengilley</div> <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>