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It's the ancients on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes, your host,

and in today's episode, well, it's a special one. We're talking about the murders of Alexander,

the Great. We're going to be exploring these crimes, these killings of figures close to Alexander

during his reign and just before, and it was an absolutely brutal time to be alive. We're going

to start with the assassination of Alexander's father, King Philip II. The bloody purge that

followed is Alexander secured his control of the kingship, and then a series of terrifying

killings that occurred over the course of Alexander's reign as a result of either conspiracies

or drunken brews, particularly the story of Clitus. That is a pretty gruesome one.

This is all to come, and it's special not because it's just Alexander the Great,

but also because I am the guest. I headed to a studio near History Hit HQ a week or so ago,

to be interviewed by the hosts of a new History Hit podcast. They are the historians,

Antony Delaney, and Maddie Pelling. Now Antony and Maddie, they are brilliant,

they work so well together, it was a delight to be interviewed by them for the podcast, which is

called After Dark. Myths, misdeeds, and the paranormal. That's going to be released every Monday

and Thursday on History Hit. They've already got episodes out on murders in ancient Rome and the

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