Pompeii

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Warning: this episode contains explicit language and discussions of sex.

Pompeii is a city frozen in time and shows us exactly how the Romans really lived. Buried by volcanic ash and debris from a catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, visitors to the Roman town can still see eerily preserved homes, bathhouses, the notorious brothel, and plaster casts of victims in their last moments.

Dan is joined by Dr Kate Lister to tell the story of the eruption and explain the history behind what remains in Pompeii and their top tips for visiting.

This is part of our summer travel series 'Dan's Guide to Europe'.

Produced by Mariana Des Forges, edited by Tim Arstall and sound designed by Dougal Patmore.

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0:00.0	Hello,
0:00.5	folks, Dan Snow here.
0:01.6	I am throwing a party to celebrate 10 years of Dan Snow's history hit.
0:06.1	I'd love for you to be there.
0:07.5	Join me for a very special live recording of the podcast in London,
0:10.4	in England on the 12th of September to celebrate the 10 years.
0:14.1	You can find out more about it and get tickets with the link in the show notes.
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0:59.3	The stalls in Pompeii's market overflow with grapes, figs, barley and olives.
1:11.7	Men and women in their woolen, dates, barley and olives. Men and women in there.
1:13.5	Woolen, linen togas, peruse what else's on offer.
1:17.5	Wine, herds and honey.
1:21.2	As they reach out to pick up the produce, the ground rumbles.
1:25.4	The stalls sway, olives fall to the ground.
1:39.3	For days, tremors have reverberated through the stone streets of this affluent Roman town on the Bay of Naples.
1:47.0	But most of its 18,000 inhabitants have ignored them, continuing to go about their leisure and work.
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