641. Rome’s Greatest Enemy: Hannibal’s Nemesis (Part 2)

Hello everyone, I am here with some exceedingly exciting news. Now, as all our beloved club members will already know, one of the very best things of being a member of the Restless History Club is getting access to exclusive members only mini series. That's right, mini-series, not just individual episodes. So these are special episodes every other month which only club members can listen to, no one else.

And we've got a brand new one coming out this February. So that's going to be the very first one of 2026 and it is presented by me and the great art critic Laura Cumming. Four episodes. And it's about paintings that shed a particularly fascinating light on history and it covers a broad range of times and places. So everything from Velázquez's Las Meninas, described by many critics as the greatest of all paintings, right the way up to Henry Rayburn's Skating Minister.

What do these paintings tell us about the times in which they were painted? It's really, really fascinating stuff. And members will get a new one of those episodes every Wednesday and it is starting this week on the 4th of February. So that's the Wednesday. And if you are not watching it on YouTube or Spotify, if you're just listening to it as a podcast, don't worry because we will be sending all our members an email which will be going into greater written detail about the painting, but also obviously giving you an image of the painting itself so you can have a quick look at that.

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