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Milo, Phoebe and Pat are reunited once again to talk about Mary Queen of Scots and specifically the slightly puzzling movie about her from 2018. We discuss the accents, the politics and the incredible disguises they've got David Tennant and Guy Pearce in.

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No Milo this week so Phoebe and Pat are donning their stockings and heading to Sherwood Forest for a dose of British children's TV from the 80s and 90s - Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. Expect a fair few digressions.

Milo and Phoebe are deep diving into yet another Liz Truss-coded Roman Emperor: Otho. Expect thrills, spills and castrated boy-wives.

Phoebe is turning the question time tables on Pat this week (Milo will return next week) to indulge her special interest subject: the Tudors, what's their deal and why do we keep making TV and movies about them?

Just Milo and Pat this week, cracking into the relatively thin text of the Emperor Galba - the Roman Liz Truss...or was he? Expect an Australian vibes round-up and also some apposite comparisons with the collapsing American empire.

No Pat this week (due to timezones) so Phoebe has lured Milo into her Tudor corner. Expect ruffs to be ruffled and bodices to be ripped. Why does this movie have Eric Cantona in it? Why is Vincent Cassel in a dress? Questions to be answered.

Phoebe has recorded a new podcast mini-series with friend of the show Dr Eleanor Janega about Season 1 of the Wolf Hall TV show.

Phoebe and Pat are sans-Milo this week and they're doing another carpet time! On this occasion they're doing a Nero spin-off and tackling the subject of ancient entertainment and theatre.

Milo, Phoebe and Pat are answering your questions! They cover Phoebe's movie taxonomy, ancient chariot races and their podcasting histories, amongst other things. Thanks to everyone who sent in a question, as always we couldn't get to them all!

Milo, Phoebe and Pat are back at the Suetonius and this time it's the turn of the Emperor Nero. This episode tackles the big questions: Was Nero the son of the most conniving MILF of all time? Was he the first guy to get an acoustic guitar out at the afters? How do you get the job of arch-poisoner? Listen to find out.

Phoebe is away this week because she is ill (sorry), but in recompense to you, the listener, Milo and Patrick have gotten together to watch this peculiar Hollyoaks-esque movie about Boudica.

Returning-Champion Josh Boerman (TWOAPW, Ill Conceived) is back on the pod to talk about the bizarrely long-running UK sitcom 'Plebs', set in Ancient Rome. We get into costume vs period and what happens when you try to map modern society onto ancient Rome and also what to do about protecting our supply of BIG BOYS.

Roman legions are being terrified by adherents of WODE-IDEOLOGY. That's right, it's time we had a deep dive on Queen Boudicca (or Boudica, or Boudicea if you're really fruity) - leader of the Iceni tribe who rebelled against Roman rule in Britain in the 60s AD. Milo, Phoebe and Pat get into one of the original conniving MILFs and attempt to separate the myth from the history. Simple as.

Milo, Patrick and Phoebe are back at the Suetonius. Patrick is in charge this week for Rome's first ever nepo-uncle: Claudius. Sometimes in a palace coup, you just grab the nearest uncle and make him Emperor and if you're really lucky he conquers Britain. Something like that.

Phoebe and Pat are sans-Milo this week, and having a huge amount of fun talking about teenage demigod Percy Jackson. Milo will triumphantly return next week for the Emperor Claudius.

In the 1970s Bob Guccione had a simple dream: to make a serious movie about the emperor Caligula with Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, John Gielgud and Peter O'Toole that also had a bunch of porn in it. Champion, fan-favourite and horny-history expert Eleanor Janega returns to the pod to talk about one of the most insane films ever made.

Phoebe and Patrick answer your questions about the Early Roman Empire and anything else that stood out to you from the first few episodes of our Twelve Caesars series. Milo will return next week.

It's time for history's greatest statesman, a man so forward thinking he nearly made a horse a consul (or did he?): Gaius Caligula. Expect palace coups, seashells and slightly over-familiar sister relationships.