I listened to the broadcast last night of Radio 3 and enjoyed it. Sean Barret and Mia Soteriou, the readers, had been well coached, and their Latin pronunciation was quite good, although the vowel quantities were often wrong, and at times it seemed that the readers did not understand the syntax well enough to convey it to the listener. The BBC Radio 3 authorities are to be congratulated on an unusual and fascinating programme. I have to admit that I had never read Pliny the Elder in Latin.   more »