Marjorie Westbury in the comedy by Aristophanes translated by Patric Dickinson with music by Stephen Dodgson.
About the year 393 BC, Socrates of Athens was suggesting that there should be women Ministers of State as well as men, and that they should live together at the State's expense having no private property; that therefore wives should be held in common and likewise children; and that communism of women and children would confirm the greatest of all benefits upon the State.
These are some of the ideas satirised by Aristophanes.
The Hamilton Orchestra conducted by Rae Jenkins.
A chance to hear again some of the best one-hour plays broadcast in recent years.
