Starting Monday on BBC 4 Radio’s “Book at Bedtime” series, the book will be Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, read by David Horovitch and abridged by Tom Holland. And what an abridgment, since the total air time will be an hour and fifteen minutes. I have no idea what it will be like, but I’m looking forward to finding out!

Schedule:

• Monday, 27 April 2015: War Begins
• Tuesday, 28 April 2015: From Funerals to Plague
• Wednesday, 29 April 2015: Spartan Surrender at Pylos
• Thursday, 30 April 2015: An Athenian Atrocity
• Friday, 1 May 2015: The Beginning of the End