The Iron Hand of Mars

Anton Lesser and Anna Madeley star in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatization of the fourth novel in Lindsey Davis' bestselling series featuring Roman private eye Marcus Didius Falco. Falco is dispatched to one of the most hostile parts of the Empire to deliver a new standard an iron hand to one of the legions. Germania is cold, wet, dismal and full of dark forests inhabited by bloodthirsty barbarians, but Falco has an even bigger problem to worry about: he has forgotten Helena Justina's birthday, and she is being pursued by the Emperor's son, Titus Caesar.