- Series 1
- s01e01 - 2014-03-24 - Petronius
- Satire, sex, and sausages. The worst dinner party in history. Meet Petronius, creator of the infamous Satyricon.
- s01e02 - 2014-03-31 - Sophocles
- Sophocles invents the TV detective with Oedipus. Spoiler alert! Bad things happen.
- s01e03 - 2014-04-07 - Virgil
- Virgil gives tips on bee-keeping and creates Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- s01e04 - 2014-04-14 - Aspasia
- How to be a notorious woman in ancient Greece.
- Series 2
- s02e01 - 2016-04-11 - Aristophanes
- The Greek playwright and inventor of 'old comedy'.
- s02e02 - 2016-04-18 - Ovid
- The Roman poet. Expect frottage at the races, Greek myths from a female perspective, and enough inspiration for painters, writers and sculptures to last a couple of millennia.
- s02e03 - 2016-04-25 - Plato
- One of the world's all-time greatest thinkers.
- s02e04 - 2016-05-02 - Agrippina
- One of the most powerful women of Ancient Rome and Caligula's big sister.
- Series 3
- s03e01 - 2017-08-03 - Sappho
- The Greek poet.
- s03e02 - 2017-08-10 - Cicero
- The Roman lawyer, politician, and orator.
- s03e03 - 2017-08-17 - Lucian
- The little-known but super-influential Greek writer, and forgotten inventor of science fiction.
- s03e04 - 2017-08-24 - Juvenal
- The Roman satirist.
- Series 4
- s04e01 - 2018-07-30 - Phryne
- The Greek courtesan famed for her wit and beauty.
- s04e02 - 2018-08-06 - Horace
- The Roman poet who made friends of enemies through his poems.
- s04e03 - 2018-08-13 - Euripides
- The Greek playwright, whose Medea still shocks with its insight into the position of women.
- s04e04 - 2018-08-20 - Livy
- The Roman historian.
- Series 5
- s05e01 - 2019-12-23 - Aristotle
- The life of Aristotle.
- s05e02 - 2019-12-30 - Claudia Severa
- Roman-British women, including a fierce queen and a slave freed for love.
- s05e03 - 2020-01-06 - Suetonius
- The Roman biographer of the Caesars and friend of Pliny the Younger.
- s05e04 - 2020-01-13 - Homer - The Iliad
- The Iliad, an epic work about gods, Greeks and Trojans, men and women, mothers and fathers and lovers.
- Series 6
- s06e01 - 2020-05-17 - Helen of Troy
- "The most beautiful woman in the world", who hatched from an egg, and was the daughter of Zeus. Men fought over her from an early age, but was she really to blame for all those wars on epic scale?
- s06e02 - 2020-05-24 - Penthesilea
- The Amazon warrior Queen, who was given a hero's burial when she died in battle.
- s06e03 - 2020-05-31 - Eurydice
- A new perspective on Eurydice's story, whose rescue from the Underworld was bungled by her lover Orpheus. How has her story been uncovered from sources that no longer exist?
- s06e04 - 2020-06-07 - Penelope
- The clever woman and perfect wife behind The Odyssey.
- Series 7
- s07e01 - 2021-05-18 - Medusa
- The real story of the famous snake-haired mythological woman? Medusa is truly terrifying, but she wasn't always a monster. She was once the most beautiful of the Gorgon sisters,
turned into this hideous version of herself by the goddess Athene, after being 'seduced' by Poseidon. Which may make her - literally - the original monstered victim.
- s07e02 - 2021-05-25 - Pandora
- A mythological equivalent to Eve with a bit of Sleeping Beauty thrown in. Her famous box turns out to have been a jar containing all sorts of evils, and of course hope. It's Erasmus' fault, for a 16th century mistranslation.
- s07e03 - 2021-06-01 - Jocasta
- The wife of Oedipus. And mother. A still spellbindingly shocking story.
- s07e04 - 2021-06-08 - Clytemnestra
- The worst wife in Greek myth. This is open to debate: she's certainly a good mother, if a little bit murderous of her husband.
- Series 8
- s08e01 - 2022-08-14 - Pompeii
- Why are ripe pomegranates and squashed grapes key archaeological finds from Pompeii?
- s08e02 - 2022-08-21 - Spartan Women
- Dancing, sport, singing and poetry: all part of the education of Spartan women. By the standards of the ancient world, Spartan women had it good.
- s08e03 - 2022-08-28 - Lucretius
- A six-book epic poem on philosophy and physics? Sounds a bit dry? Lucretius's contemporaries and poetic descendants raved about it, even Cicero, who is mean about everyone.
- s08e04 - 2022-09-04 - The Odyssey
- Natalie tells Homer's epic story of Odysseus's journey home from the Trojan War, stopping off for adventures and infidelity on the way.
- Series 9
- s09e01 - 2023-11-28 - Martial
- Epigrams, jokes, poems in praise of the emperor, and absolute filth: that's Martial. Still funny, and still shocking.
- s09e02 - 2023-12-05 - Demeter
- Natalie tells the powerful story of a mother's love, and her fury at the wrong that is done to her daughter. Demeter seeks justice for Persephone.
- s09e03 - 2023-12-12 - Athene
- Goddess of wisdom, war and... handicrafts: Athene is charismatic and bloodthirsty.
- s09e04 - 2023-12-19 - Livia
- She was the first Empress of Rome, a faithful wife and trusted advisor, so why is Livia still best known as a serial killer?