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Vergil Dying

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by GABRIEL JOSIPOVICI with Paul Scofield
Rome's great poet-historian, coerced by Caesar Augustus to relinquish his ambition of becoming a philosopher in Athens, is returning to Rome with the Emperor when he is taken ill at Brindisi. The year is 19 bc.
As he lies in his room in the royal palace with the casket in which is the manuscript of the almost finished Aeneid, he meditates on his earlier writings, his successes and his failures, his virtues and his betrayals.
Music by JONATHAN HARVEY played by SEBASTIAN BELL Directed by GUY VAESEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Gabriel Josipovici
Unknown:
Paul Scofield
Unknown:
Caesar Augustus
Music By:
Jonathan Harvey
Played By:
Sebastian Bell
Directed By:
Guy Vaesen
Source: Radio Times

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