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Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, George Blagden bring history to life with new tour app

By Karen Butler   |   Oct. 21, 2021 at 10:38 AM
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje acts as a virtual tour guide for the new app, Bardeum. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje attends the 22nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles in 2016. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Left to right, Jai Courtney, Adam Beach, Karen Fukuhara, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Cara Delevingne, Jay Hernandez, Will Smith, Margot Robbie and Joel Kinneman arrive for the Warner Bros. Pictures Presentation at CinemaCon 2016 in Las Vegas. File Photo by James Atoa/UPI Left to right, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren and John Goodman attend the "Trumbo" photocall during the BFI London Film Festival in London in 2015. File Photo by Paul Treadway/UPI Guests gather outside of Rome's Colosseum for an International Meeting for Peace with leaders of various religions and confessions on October 7 in Rome, Italy.  Photo by Stefano Spaziani/UPI

Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Game of Thrones alum Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Vikings actor George Blagden can now be seen and heard guiding tours in Rome via a free mobile app.

Akinnuoye-Agbaje -- whose credits also include Suicide Squad, Oz and Lost -- narrates a tour of the Roman Colosseum, Bardeum said in a press release Wednesday.

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Eagles of the Empire scribe Simon Scarrow wrote the new audio-visual experience, which is titled Blood and Sand.

Elsewhere, Blagden, who also starred in the TV show Versailles and film Les Miserables, enlightens viewers about Circus Maximus in The Charioteer, created by Margaret George, for the app.

George is a historical novelist known for her books The Autobiography of Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles and The Memoirs of Cleopatra.

Bardeum offers in-depth, virtual tours of Florence, Versailles, London and Washington, D.C., as well.