There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because

I'm a bit for homebody and I love a 5th but I think it's just the holiday period is just

for me it's the most romantic period and I think anyone who's listened to my records

will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.

Joy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks.

It's September in the year 52 BC.

We're in the heart of Gaul, the vast territory that in today's terms covers France and much

of the low countries.

The top of steep hill sits the Iron Age settlement of Alessia.

It's known as an opium of 45-tonne, the defences here are massive.

This perhaps the most impregnable strung cold in the entire land.

Covered on three sides by a thick forest, the open front looks out across the rolling

ground of what will one day become burgundy.

Arrayed against the fortress are ten Roman legions of Julius Caesar's conquering army.

The Romans would normally have tried to storm Alessia using the latest weapons of war to

smash down its walls, but there are 80,000 of Gaul's finest warriors hold up inside.

It's a tough nut to crack.

Instead the Romans have waited it out, laying siege, knowing that Alessia's grain supplies

will eventually become depleted.

Outside the walls are piles of rotting corpses, the women, children and elderly.

Mouth deemed unworthy of feeding by the defenders.

Thirty days on starvation is rife.

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