{"id":5201,"date":"2015-11-27T11:45:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T11:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2017-06-30T18:13:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T17:13:17","slug":"ray-laurence-on-ancient-roman-roads-on-radio-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/11\/27\/ray-laurence-on-ancient-roman-roads-on-radio-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Laurence on ancient roman roads on Radio 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Ray Laurence, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies<\/a>, will feature on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\">BBC Radio 4<\/a>\u2019s <em>Ancient Ways With Bettany Hughes<\/em> on Friday 4 December 2016 at 11am.<\/p>\n<p>Bettany Hughes is a broadcaster and writer. In the programme, Bettany follows the ancient Roman road to Istanbul, tracing its route through Albania, Macedonia and Greece, exploring how the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livius.org\/articles\/place\/via-egnatia\/\">Egnatian Way<\/a> helped to shape Europe and the Middle East. In the first episode, she journeys from the Adriatic shores of Albania to the Macedonian plain where Alexander The Great grew up.<\/p>\n<p>Ray was interviewed for the programme on the contribution of Roman roads in the on-going definition of the geography of Europe, migration in the Roman Empire \u2013 much higher than the levels experienced in Europe today \u2013 as well as Cicero\u2019s exile in Thessaloniki.<\/p>\n<p>The series consists of three episodes, and will\u00a0be found on the BBC\u2019s iPlayer here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b06qms9p\">www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b06qms9p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Ray Laurence, from the Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies, will feature on BBC Radio 4\u2019s Ancient Ways With Bettany Hughes on Friday 4 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/11\/27\/ray-laurence-on-ancient-roman-roads-on-radio-4\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":2902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18564,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5201"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7590,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions\/7590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}