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* [[Tim McInnerny]] played Tiberius in the 2010 radio adaptation. | * [[Tim McInnerny]] played Tiberius in the 2010 radio adaptation. | ||
* [[Samuel Barnett]] played Caligula in the 2010 radio adaptation. | |||
* [[John Friedlander]] was the visual effects designer on the final episode of the 1976 serial. | * [[John Friedlander]] was the visual effects designer on the final episode of the 1976 serial. | ||
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I, Claudius was a novel that the Tenth Doctor noted made the Roman Emperor Caligula look worse than he really was. (PROSE: The Lonely Computer) Brian Blessed played Augustus in a television adaptation. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles) In Roma I, Marcus Americanius Scriptor commissioned and extensively edited an award-winning biography of Claudius written by his fellow soldier Sepulcrius. (PROSE: Warlords of Utopia)
Behind the scenes
The novel has been adapted several times:
- David Warner played Claudius in the 1972 stage adaptation.
- Derek Jacobi played Claudius in the 1976 BBC serial and Augustus in the 2010 BBC Radio adaptation. He also narrated two abridged audiobook versions.
- The 1976 serial featured Brian Blessed as Augustus, Siân Phillips as Livia, George Baker as Tiberius, John Hurt as Caligula, Frances White as Julia, Patricia Quinn as Livilla, John Castle as Postumus, Fiona Walker as Agrippina, Sheila Ruskin as Vipsania, Kevin Stoney as Thrasyllus, Jo Rowbottom as Calpurnia, Kevin McNally as Castor, John Cater as Narcissus, Sam Dastor as Cassius Chaerea, Stratford Johns as Piso and Renu Setna as Musa. It was produced by Martin Lisemore.
- Tom Goodman-Hill played Claudius in the 2010 radio adaptation.
- Tim McInnerny played Tiberius in the 2010 radio adaptation.
- Samuel Barnett played Caligula in the 2010 radio adaptation.
- John Friedlander was the visual effects designer on the final episode of the 1976 serial.
