Sunil Patel's Roman Rampage

Rome, 150 BCE. The Roman Republic is at its swaggering peak, senators are running the show, and comedian Sunil Patel has arrived with a plan to make a name for himself among the elite. His previous PastMaster appearance gave us the legendary "Patel's Box" — a game-changing invention so enigmatic it became a running joke. Now he's back, and Rome isn't ready. Sunil's approach to Republican Rome is characteristically direct: find some senators and start networking. His methods for climbing the social ladder involve a combination of charm, violence, and inventions that would make an engineer weep. The Game Master has opinions about whether you can just assault Roman politicians without consequences, and Sunil has opinions about whether the Game Master can stop him. What game-changing creation can possibly top the enigmatic Patel's Box? The answer involves wheels, armour, and a level of ambition that Republican Rome has not previously encountered. Republican Rome was a world of ruthless political ambition, military expansion, and social stratification — a city where your name was everything and your connections determined whether you lived in a marble villa or a slum. The Forum was where deals were made, the Senate was where power was brokered, and the streets were where Sunil Patel is about to test whether Roman engineering can be improved by a man whose last invention defied categorisation. If you were sent back in time, could you survive and thrive — or would you be burnt at the stake for being a witch? PastMaster is the show that turns history into an interactive adventure game. Each episode, a comedian is dropped into the past with nothing but modern knowledge and terrible ideas. The AI Game Master is strict. The chaos is inevitable. The past will be mastered. Era: Ancient | 150 BCE | Rome, Italy Featuring: Sunil Patel — comedian (Things You Should Have Done, BBC Three; Alice & Jack, Channel 4) EPISODE LINKS Follow Sunil's adventure on the PastMaster Interactive Map 👉 https://map.pastmasterpod.com Sunil Patel: Instagram @sunilpatelcomedy | X @sunilpatel | sunilpatelcomedy.com GET IN TOUCH Sign up to our newsletter 👉 www.pastmasterpod.com Instagram 👉 @pastmasterpod TikTok 👉 @pastmasterpod X 👉 @pastmasterAI Email us 👉 pastmasterpod@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices