A wonderful variety of excerpts from the works of the Bard with some of the best voices ever. Covering so many incredible performances from Peggy Ashcroft's Juliet to Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in Anthony and Cleopatra. Bob Peck taming the shrew of Cheryl Campbell. Richard Burton's Henry V and his stirring St Crispian Day speech. Judi Dench's plays Julia from the Two Gentlemen of Verona. John Gielgud...
Rome, AD 34: Vespasian is serving as a military officer on the outskirts of the Empire. But political events in Rome - Tiberius's increasing debauchery, the escalating grain crisis - draw him back to the city. When Caligula becomes Emperor, Vespasian believes that things will improve. Instead, the young emperor deteriorates from Rome's shining star to a blood-crazed, incestuous, all-powerful madman.