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Caesar! is a set of British radio plays set in
ancient Rome and written by
Mike Walker for the
Classic Serial strand. The first series (premiered in 2003) was based on
Suetonius's
Lives of the Caesars - later series covered later emperors.
- Meeting at Formiae - 13 July 2003 - On
Julius Caesar (
David Troughton) and his dealings with
Cicero (
Anton Lesser) and
Cato the Younger (
Stephen Critchlow)
- The Arena - 20 July 2003 - On the early career of
Octavian (
Adam Levy), also featuring
Jasmine Hyde as
Livia and with
Richard Johnson as the remembering adult
Augustus
- Peeling Figs for Julius - 27 July 2003 - On
Caligula (
David Tennant), also featuring
George Baker as
Tiberius, whom he had previously played in
I, Claudius.
- The Best of Mothers - 17 July 2005 - On
Nero (
Jonathan Forbes) and his mother
Agrippina the Younger (
Frances Barber)
- The Glass Ball Game - 24 July 2005 - On
Hadrian (
Jonathan Hyde) and his relationship with his lover
Antinous (
Andrew Garfield), his wife
Sabina (
Amanda Root) and the historian Suetonius (
Jonathan Coy)
- Citizens in a Great City - 31 July 2005 - On the reigns of
Marcus Aurelius (
Ronald Pickup),
Commodus (
Jim Sturgess) and
Septimius Severus (
Ray Fearon), also featuring Severus' wife
Julia Domna (
Helen McCrory).
- Empress in the West - 25 February 2007 - On the life of
Victoria (
Barbara Flynn) and the
Gallic Empire under the rule of
Postumus (
Danny Webb) and her son
Victorinus (
Sam Troughton)
- The Maker of All Things - 4 March 2007 - On
Constantine the Great (
Sam Dale) and his son
Crispus (
Joseph Kloska), also featuring Constantine's second wife
Fausta (
Christine Kavanaugh)
- An Empire Without End - 11 March 2007 - On
Romulus Augustulus (
Tom Hiddleston)