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Gabriel Zuchtriegel talks to Suzy Klein

The Buried City: Unearthing the Real Pompeii

Hay Festival 2025, 

Think you know the story of Pompeii? Think again, and join Gabriel Zuchtriegel – who is currently overseeing the biggest dig of the site of Pompeii in a generation – as he shares the new secrets of the city.

Zuchtriegel is Director General of the archaeological park in Pompeii. Drawing on astonishing discoveries made during the first excavation of a part of Pompeii, Zuchtriegel reveals in his new book The Buried City the untold human stories that are at last emerging from a city frozen in time, where there are unmade beds, captivating works of art and the signs of lives abruptly halted. He talks to Head of Arts & Classical Music TV, BBC, Suzy Klein.