4. Pink Eye

Roman Northern Frontier 110AD. When an epidemic of conjunctivitis breaks out at the fort, the Prefect's freedman Privatus recommends an unusual cure to Lepidina.

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
Lepidina .... Shuna Snow
Cerialis .... Robert Bathurst
Privatus .... David Bradley

Original music by Sian Burns

Director: Lawrence Jackson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2002