Natalie Haynes for No Friend to This House

Natalie Haynes is the author of The Amber Fury, The Children of Jocasta, A Thousand Ships, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020, and Stone Blind, a Sunday Times bestseller.

Her non-fiction includes Pandora's Jar, a bestseller in both the UK and the US, and Divine Might. She has written and performed ten series of her BBC Radio 4 show, Natalie Haynes Stand Up for the Classics. In 2015 she was awarded the Classical Association Prize for her work in bringing Classics to a wider audience.

Natalie joins us for No Friend to This House. Based on the classic tragedy by Euripides, this is Medea as you've never seen her before . . .

Exiled daughter, abandoned wife, vengeful mother. But is that where the truth lies? This is the story of Medea as you've never heard it before.

Jason and his Argonauts set sail to find the Golden Fleece. The journey is filled with danger, and if he ever reaches the distant land he seeks he faces almost certain death.

Medea - priestess, witch, and daughter of the brutal king who jealously guards the fleece - has the power to save Jason's life. Will she betray her family and her home?

Burning with desire for a stranger, as the gods intend, Medea chooses Jason over her kin. But their love is steeped in vengeance from the beginning, and no one - not even those closest to them - will be safe when their passion is spent . . .