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The Drinking Party

on BBC One London

by Plato.

"The programme set a standard in making philosophy accessible to a mass audience..." (Queen)
"I can't recall another programme more likely to start a philosophy boom..." (Sunday Times)
"Leo McKern as Socrates made the speech on the nature of love sound as if it had been newly minted." (Daily Mail)

Another opportunity to see this highly praised Sunday Night re-creation of Plato's Symposium by Leo Aylen and Jonathan Miller.

A group of young men return to the grounds of their old school and celebrate their reunion by re-enacting Plato's great dialogue on the nature of human love.
Starring Leo McKern as Socrates
(Repeat)

Contributors

Author:
null Plato
Adapted by:
Leo Aylen
Adapted by/Producer/Director:
Jonathan Miller
Socrates:
Leo McKern
Pausanias:
Michael Gough
Eryximachus:
Alan Bennett
Aristophanes:
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Agathon:
Barry Justice
Phaedrus:
John Fortune
Alcibiades:
Robert Gillespie
Aristodemus:
Julian Jebb
Waiter:
Darroll Richards

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