Peter Stothard: Crassus

<div>My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Peter Stothard, whose new book <em>Crassus: The First Tycoon</em> tells the story of the third man in Rome’s great triumvirate: landlord, power-broker, Spartacus’s nemesis and leader of a hubristic expedition to the east that was to see his glorious career end in bitter failure.<br> <br> Image © Teri Pengilley</div>