from the bbc – pompeii: portents of disaster

Thanks to Vicki, here is the BBC's Pompeii: Portents of Disaster by Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, in eight brief chapters.

The people of Pompeii were quite unprepared for the eruption of Vesuvius - getting on with their busy lives, in total ignorance of what was to come. The signs of impending disaster, though, were there – why did no-one pick up on them?