The destruction of Pompeii
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🗓️ 23 September 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:44.9 | Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm Ellie Gawthorne. |
| 0:56.8 | On today's episode, you'll hear an interview with the historian and classicist Daisy Dunn. |
| 1:02.4 | Daisy is the author of In the Shadow of Vesuvius A New Life of Pliny, |
| 1:07.1 | and she recently wrote a cover feature on Pompeii for Our Sister magazine BBC History Revealed. |
| 1:13.1 | The editor of BBC History Revealed, Charlotte Hodgman, spoke to her to find out more about the ancient volcanic eruption and the town that it destroyed. |
| 1:21.5 | So you've written a piece on Pompeii in our recent issue. |
| 1:26.1 | Perhaps you can just maybe recap for listeners, you know, |
| 1:29.4 | what happened on that fateful day? I mean, did people in Pompeii have any idea that Vesuvius |
| 1:34.9 | was about to kind of erupt? I think really this, the eruption of Vesuvius came as a massive |
| 1:42.9 | shock to everyone who was living in Pompeii, Herculeanian, |
| 1:46.4 | and sort of the other towns and villages of Campania. It was early afternoon, one day in |
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