蜜芽传媒

Bettany Hughes's biography of Istanbul is the story of three cities - Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul - and reveals a city that's been at the heart of political life between the East and the West for the last eight thousand years. Bettany talks to Amol Rajan about an incredible connection to Cornwall's Tintagel, and history's most powerful woman in the world.

First broadcast on Start the Week, 30 January 2017.