In Conversation with Bettany Hughes

Dr Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster, whose speciality is ancient and mediaeval history and culture. Her first book Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore has been translated into ten languages. Her second, The Hemlock Cup, Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life was a New York Times bestseller and she has written and presented numerous documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, Discovery, The History Channel, National Geographic and ITV. Her programmes have now been seen by over 100 million worldwide. Her current TV series Genius of the Ancient World, explores the lives of Buddha, Socrates and Confucius and promotes the power of thinking, learning and investigating.