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Radio 4,05 Jan 2010,30 mins

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Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. Christopher Biggins champions the life of the Roman Emperor Nero, a man whose modest talent for poetry was overshadowed by his debauchery, extravagance and tyranny.

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