Join award-winning historian, author and broadcaster Bettany Hughes for an evening of historical storytelling. The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis. The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of Halikarnassos. The Colossus at Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Seven Wonders of the World were staggeringly audacious impositions on our planet. They were also brilliant adventures of the mind, test cases for the reaches of human imagination. Now, only the Great Pyramid remains fully standing, yet the scale and majesty of these seven wonders still enthral us today. Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. Venus and Aphrodite: History of a Goddess; Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life, and Helen Of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore. Hughes has made factual films and documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, PBS, National Geographic, Discovery, The History Channel and ABC and is a co-founder of the internationally focussed production house SandStone Global. She is a Research Fellow of King’s College London and has been honoured with numerous awards, including the Norton Medlicott Medal for History... See more >