Hello, welcome to the rest of history.

It really is a grey old day here, the rain pouring in your relentlessly down and what

I wouldn't give for a little bit of the Aegean sunshine.

Well, as it happens, Tom Holland always brings a little bit of grease with him, don't you Tom?

Thank you so much to all of you guys, it's a charming thing to say.

And in fact, you have very kindly already allowed me to do one episode on the Aegean

grease we covered the Trojan War.

And because I'm a glutton for good things, I would like to return to that.

And today we are going to look perhaps more broadly not just the Trojan War, but at the

whole field of Greek mythology.

But it's going to be a different kind of podcast because for the first time we have a guest.

And I think that when we have our first guest on this podcast, it's got to be a special

guest.

Definitely.

Well Dominic, for our first guest, I've chosen a polymath, a comedian, an actor, a novelist,

an all-round Renaissance man.

And it's the definition of a Renaissance man, I think, that he should love Aegean grease

and perhaps specifically its mythology.

And the Renaissance man that I have invited on is Mr Stephen Fry, who is joining us from

California, has a new book out on the Trojan War.

Stephen, thanks so much for joining us.

It's a pleasure.

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