2. Fish Sauce and British Beer

Roman Northern Frontier 110AD. Spiro the Quartermaster orders in provisions for the coming feast while keeping abreast of fort gossip.

Series about everyday life in a Roman fort on the Northern Frontier.

Written by Catherine Czerkawska.

Inspired by the wooden writing tablets recently found at the site of Vindolanda in Northumberland.

Coventina .... Heledd Baskerville
Spiro .... Freddie Jones
Privatus .... David Bradley
Paulina .... Amanda Root

Original music by Sian Burns.

Director: Lawrence Jackson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2002.