Hail the return of I, Claudius, the BBC’s greatest-ever drama
Naturally, there will be smartypantses making fun of the make-up; the emperors’ hair will probably get a social media following of its own. Yet the re-showing by the BBC of its greatest-ever television series, I Claudius, later this month, should by rights be the broadcast sensation of the year.
Transcript
00:00 I'm now about to begin this strange history of my life, of my family.
00:06 I'm going to marry you.
00:08 To uncle Claudius.
00:11 And you can both come and live in the palace.
00:13 By we could stage the greatest night of love the world has ever seen.
00:21 Let me go, you fat drunken cow!
00:24 I found him in Lucilla's bed, naked, the pair of them.
00:28 You acted as her pimp and her procurer!
00:31 That's not true!
00:32 Liar! You forget who I am!
00:34 The Emperor's wife.
00:36 We are immortal gods.
00:39 Kill him. We've talked enough.
00:49 This puts the Emperor's life in danger.
00:51 The moment you relinquish your power, you're a dead man.
00:56 Must get it all down, quickly, before they finish me off.
01:02 before they finish me off.