At a critical time for the BBC, the Renewal group, under Head of Values Ian Fletcher, is tasked with identifying what the company does best. Meanwhile, a new challenge co ...

Fork-lift driver Wendy is happy with partner Katya and their little girl - until jealous, violent ex-girlfriend Nina turns up, threatening to kill Katya. The police are c ...

Warehouse manager Billy 'Toke' Tokington and two friends dress as super heroes to act as nocturnal urban vigilantes. One night he rescues Chrissy Michaels, a homeless gir ...

Jenna's assistant Holly suspects boyfriend Neil of infidelity and generally feels life is passing her by. She schemes to get back with high-flying ex-lover Adam and seeks ...

Ex-alcoholic and scout master Joe is the jocular head of sales at Coopers' sportswear firm. One day, following an accident at work, he is sent home early and is surprised ...

Lydia Rose Bewley and Jessica Knappett tell a tale of royal rivalry (Queen Elizabeth I versus Mary Queen of Scots) and James 'Murr' Murray visits Billy the Kid. ...

Lydia Rose Bewley and Jessica Knappett tell a tale of royal rivalry (Queen Elizabeth I versus Mary Queen of Scots) and James 'Murr' Murray visits Billy the Kid. ...

Weather forecaster Strabo moves into the block and foretells an earthquake, causing a mass exodus from the city. Stylax hopes to use the earthquake to get nearer to worka ...

After a row in the supermarket Grumio injures slave Terrence and has to fill in for him whilst he recovers. New master Tarquin proves to be very strict but Grumio knows h ...

Egyptian Ramases comes to Marcus's office on work experience and impresses with his wealth since his father owns the company, teaching Stylax and Marcus the game of jugba ...

After they are mugged Stylax enrols the trio in a self-defence class, run by ex-legionnaire Hector, who delights in humiliating Marcus in front of Delphine. Meanwhile Gru ...

Grumio is spotted in the street by actress and director Iona Ruffina, who casts him as Cupid in her play 'Bastardus Rex' and Stylus, anxious to meet groupies, understudie ...

Marcus's parents visit but he is anxious to keep them away from the politically passionate Delphine and is embarrassed when they accidentally meet. Fortunately his mother ...

Grumio has a surprise visitor in soup salesman Justin, the father who abandoned him as a baby. Marcus is appalled but Grumio is won over by trips to the boxing match and ...

Though anxious for himself, Stylax and Grumio to see a beast show in the arena Marcus is sufficiently captivated by the Gallic animal rights activist Delphine that he and ...

Cynthia needs to raise 3,000 denarii or get a job to prevent herself and Metella from being deported back to Britain so Stylax suggests she bet on his winning an illegal ...

Stylax is overjoyed to see his old school-friend Fabianus, now a successful lawyer known as Fab, who gets him off a parking fine. Marcus never liked Fab and teased him at ...

It?s a public holiday in Rome for the local elections. Marcus and Stylax sign up as hired clappers for wig-wearing politician Victor of the Gracchii. Grumio however is dr ...

On impulse Stylax buys a new slave Mushki. His efficiency and culinary skill impress Marcus but Stylax is worried that he is too attentive, bordering on the psychotic. Gr ...

Grumio catches dysentery from eating an apple he picked up in a urinal but rather than pay for a doctor Marcus takes Cynthia's advice to hold a vigil with her, praying to ...

Grumio finds a baby behind the dustbins and takes her home to raise as his own, naming her Binny. Marcus is against their keeping her but is outvoted by Stylax who can cl ...

Office colleague Aurelius asks Marcus to be best man at his arranged marriage to the virginal Drusilla and to organize his stag night ,which turns out to be a dismal affa ...

Marcus and Stylax win big on the chariot race but Marcus fails to get a date with Cynthia so instead he takes out new resident Amada, unaware that she is a prostitute. St ...

A soothsayer predicts a misfortune for Cynthia,making her reluctant to attend the festival of Saturnalia in case something happens to her. Marcus,hoping to use the festiv ...

Marcus is depressed after being beaten up by an elderly chugger and even less pleased when the landlord billets a pair of Thracian immigrants,Irina and Cosmo,in the apart ...

Marcus is unhappy when Felix,part of a stray cat infestation,wanders into the apartment but when he learns Cynthia has adopted the cat sets out to pamper him,sadly overdo ...

Stylax buys Grumio an erotic vase for his birthday featuring a character who bears a striking resemblance to someone nearby. Marcus has done nothing for his slave and, un ...

The boys are introduced to Cynthia's new boyfriend Cassius, a friendly local gladiator. Everyone's charmed apart from Marcus who hopes that, one way or another, their rel ...

Rome, 27 B.C. - Young scribe Marcus falls for new neighbour Cynthia, a Briton, and to impress her asks lazy slave Grumio to clean the dog poo from her doorstep. Marcus's ...