2—‛ Phaedo ’
A new translation by Hugh Tredennick
Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Rayner Heppenstall
The date is 399 B.C. Socrates must take poison at sundown. He spends the day in a debate with his friends on the immortality of the soul. This debate is reported some years later to a group of Peloponnesian disciples by Phaedo, who took part in it
(The recorded broadcast of November 4, 1947, repeated)