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Hello and welcome to this evening's proms extra.

Inspired by tonight's performance of the Trojans by Hector Berlio's that you've just heard,

we travel back to ancient Greece to experience the Trojan War,

but this time, not to hear the men's stories, but the women's.

There's been a flush of novels recently, not all but lots by women, telling the stories of those women, and we'll hear extracts from the novels dealing with the female experience of

the war, ranging from powerful

figures such as Clytemnestra and Briseus to the unknown women enslaved in the aftermath

of war.

And who better to guide us than historian and author Bettany Hughes, who has written widely

on the subject in books that include Helen of Troy, goddess, princess,

whore. And our reader this evening, breathing life into these characters anew, is actor Rachel Sterling.

Bettany, we tend to hear from the men in the ancient epics. They're of course written by men, Virgil, Homer and so on.

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