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Sunday Feature: The Roman Road

BBC Radio 3
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Novelist and screenwriter
Frederic Raphael 's dramatisation of his own translation of one of Horace's Satires, recounting the poet's political pilgrimage to Brindisi. Joined by his patron Maecenas, Horace looks forward to greeting Octavian, soon to be the Emperor Augustus.
With Norman Rodway as the scholar John Patrick Sullivan.
Producer Louise Greenberg

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederic Raphael
Unknown:
Norman Rodway
Unknown:
John Patrick Sullivan.
Producer:
Louise Greenberg
Horace:
Clive Panto
Maecenas:
Jamie Glover
Virgil:
Derek Daniels
Source: Radio Times

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