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We seem to be in the middle of a Homeric revival. The Odyssey is about to hit our screens and Stephen Fry's wonderful retelling of the story of the Iliad and the Odyssey is at the top of the bestseller lists.

We have him here with us. We are recording in Jaipo and he's going to tell us how much of the story in the Iliad and the Odyssey has a basis in reality.

We know Troy and Mycini from Homer and the ripple of novels and TV series and movies which have come from his work. But what was the actual history? What was the archaeology behind those stories? What happened in the Bronze Age

collapse that led to Troy and Mycini turning into empty ruins, just goat herds and olive trees?

Today we have none other than Stephen Fry, author of four

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