William de Rimpel

We do not know.

We know only that a father and mother stood in that chamber and wept.

I might get you to read Anita soon.

I think we need a hit out play for her.

Me?

No.

This is like sort of Boris Johnson's 10 Downing Street.

This is a place where... Very slight, yeah.

So this is the perfect cue for our Jane Fonda.

I'll take it.

Oh, Oscar.

Oscar-nominated performance.

Jesse Buckley, if you want to bring it.

At the least.

To recover from the perfection of that performance.

We do.

And we touched on this with our Eric episode about the Amarna letters, these wonderful little bits of riveta that were dug up, as Anushka likes to put it, our producer, all these extraordinary letters that were dug up and someone was looking for fertiliser.

And they contain the diplomatic archives.

And what they have over and over again, Aidan, we believe, is that they please for help from Egyptian allies further north that remain unanswered.

And people write in and in and in without ever getting a reply saying, what's happened?