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Time traveller's guide to the Roman Empire
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Everything you need to make your way through the vast Roman Empire and avoid its pirates, plagues, fires, conspiracies and, above all, wars
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Rome: The Model Empire
Shown September 2002

Chariot Race
Shown September 2002

The Private Lives of Pompeii
Shown September 2002

The Man who Saved Rome
Shown October 2002

Cleopatra
Shown May 2003

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