BBC Meet the Romans with Mary Beard 2of3 Street Life x264 AAC HD

Meet the Romans

History Documentary hosted by Mary Beard, published by BBC in 2012 - English narration





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Meet the Romans
Professor Mary Beard looks beyond the stories of emperors, armies, guts and gore to meet the everyday people at the heart of Ancient Rome's vast empire We still live in the shadow of ancient Rome - a city at the heart of a vast empire that stretched from Scotland to Afghanistan, dominating the West for over 700 years. Professor Mary Beard puts aside the stories of emperors and armies, guts and gore, to meet the real Romans living at the heart of it all.



2) Streetlife
In this programme, Mary descends into the city streets to discover the dirt, crime, sex and slum conditions in the world's first high-rise city. This Rome is not the marble Rome we know, but a vast, messy metropolis with little urban planning, where most Romans lived in high-rise apartment blocks with little space, light, or even sanitation. Forced outdoors into the city streets, she reveals where they went to hang out, get drunk, have sex and get clean. She looks at the Forum as a place of gamblers, dentists and thieves, and she explores the lustiness of Roman bar life and jokes. Finally, exploring law and order from the bottom up, Mary examines how this city really worked. She meets Ancarenus Nothus, an apartment dweller who lived in fear of the rent collector; 'Notorious' Primus, who wrote about his three great pleasures in life - 'baths, wine and sex'; and 'Unlucky' Doris, a seven-year-old girl killed in one of Rome's many fires.


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Technical Specs
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Technical Spec for HD
Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4.1
Video Bitrate: CRF 19 (~4000Kbps)
Video Resolution: 1280x720
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1
Frames Per Second: 25
Audio Codec: AAC-LC
Audio Bitrate: 160 Kbps ABR 48KHz
Audio Channels: 2
Run-Time: 59 mins
Framerate: 25 FPS
Number Of Parts: 3
Part Size: 1.68 GB (average)
Source: HDTV
Encoded by: JungleBoy

Release Notes
Merged subtitles




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1) Further Information

http://blog.britishmuseum.org/2012/04/20/meeting-the-romans-at-the-british-museum-2/