From BBC Radio 4 Extra. Written by Lindsey Davis; Full-cast dramatisation
starring Anton Lesser as Falco, with Fritha Goodey as Helena Justina;
Dramatised by Mary Cutler.

One fine day in AD 70, scruffy, working-class informer Marcus Didius Falco
literally runs into a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl on the steps of the
Forum. Sosia Camillina is on the run from a couple of street toughs, and
after rescuing her, Falco wants to find out why. It soon becomes clear
that Sosia knows a dangerous secret about a stockpile of silver ingots -
or 'pigs' - and there are those who will stop at nothing to prevent her
telling what she knows. Hoping for future favours from Sosia's rich,
influential uncle, Falco embarks on an intricate case of smuggling, murder
and treason that reaches as far as the Emperor's palace, and beyond the
seven hills of Rome. Soon, Falco finds himself in an inhospitable outpost
of the Empire called Britain, where the weather is filthy, the natives
restless and the women angry. There, he meets Helena Justina, a spirited
aristocrat who becomes an important part of his life. But, if he does not
tread carefully, the treacherous puzzle of the silver pigs could be the
death of him...

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