This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

Anthony Everett and Roddy Ashworth, continuing the story of Nero,

Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome.

We moved from the stage set of Rome itself across the Roman Empire to Britain,

Great Britain today, but to the Romans this was the far edge of the world, the far edge of the empire.

And the capital was Cameludanum, which modern Colchester, where Anthony Everett and Roddy Ashworth speak these days.

Two thousand years ago, however, it was the center of Roman rule, and the ruler in Rome needed

money, needed money collected from the barons of the tribes. That deal caused upset everywhere

across the land, especially to the man was charged with collecting from the local barons. They

changed deals. That's what he did. Instead of granting lands, he started taxing the land,

saying it was just a rental or a lease.

The British tribes, the Britons, didn't like the deal being changed, didn't want to pay their taxes.

So the Kamaludanum accountant send out some bully boys to collect the taxes, they persecuted and then brutalized

one particular tribe, the Icanai.

And therein lies the story of a woman who is enormously famous in Britain and not yet is famous in America but it's coming

her name is Budica Roddy thank you very much what do we need to know about

Budica what do we know about the Queen of the Icanai unfortunately not as much

as we'd like to.

We don't know if she was born in Ikeene.

She may have come from a foreign kingdom.

There'd been a revolt some years before between the governor of Britain and this tribe

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