Robert Graves

A famous autobiographical account of life as a young soldier in the first World War trenches....

A full-cast dramatisation of Robert Graves' brilliant account of the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome....

Including many of the greatest stories ever told - the labours of Hercules, the voyage of the Argonauts, Theseus and the minotaur, Midas and his golden touch, the Trojan War and Odysseus's journey home....

This famous sequel to I, Claudius gives a wry and human view of the Roman world, bringing to life some of the most scandalous and violent times in history....

The politics of empire-building and the hypocricies, back-stabbings and corruptions of Rome's first family come to light....

For Robert Graves, the writing of Charles Dickens was full of inherent difficulties....

The Isles of Unwisdom is an historical novel based on the ill-fated expedition of General Álvero de Mendaña de Neirato, who set out from Peru in 1595 to pacify and colonise the Solomon Islands....

On 14 June 1856, after a scandalous and extremely high-profile trial, Dr William Palmer was hanged for the poisoning of his friend John Parsons Cook....

Lot 50: The rarest and most beautiful stamp in the world. The Venus de Milo of Philately.’That was how the auctioneer announced it, and from that moment the feud began in earnest....

Written in 1925, My Head! My Head! was Robert Graves's first novel - a retelling of the story of Elisha and the Shunamite woman....

The sequel to Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth....

In order to reclaim his father's kingdom....

The sixth-century Roman Empire is a dangerous place....

Robert Graves's controversial historical novel is a bold reworking of the story of Christ....

Marie Powell is 16 when her father marries her to the poet John Milton in payment of a debt....

Robert Graves first came across the name of Roger Lamb in 1914....

In Homer's Daughter Robert Graves recreates the Odyssey....

Edward Venn-Thomas lives in the 20th century but has been mysteriously transported to the future, and the apparently idyllic society of New Create, where there is no hunger, no war, and no dissatisfaction....

Hear rare recordings from some of the world's most-respected poets reading their own works....