I, Claudius

I, ClaudiusFirst time published individually in Modern Classics, alongside CLAUDIUS THE GOD. Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In I, Claudius he watches from the sidelines to record the reigns of its emperors from the wise Augustus and his villainous wife Livia to the sadistic Tiberius

Audio commentary featuring film scholar Adrian Martin

he finds a companion in Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo

From the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s to the streaming wars of today

such as Marcello Mastroianni

with Hitler and his entourage taking refuge in potentially lethal cocktails of stimulants administered by the physician Dr Morell as the war turned against Germany

A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking

But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives

one recorded in an open

As is the track the Harder They Come

the album has a summery pop

A new edition of David Byrne’s bestselling magnum opus

love and separation