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Sunday Play Summer Season: Burn the Aeneid!

BBC Radio 3
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The first play in a new season of summer comedies is by Martyn Wade. What happens if an author gives instructions for his work to be destroyed when he dies? The likely answer is an unholy row. It was even so in 19 BC in Brundisium, southern Italy, at the deathbed of Publius Vergilius Maro, alias Virgil.

Contributors

Writer:
Martyn Wade
Director:
Cherry Cookson
Varius:
Clive Merrison
Tucca:
Norman Rodway
Eros:
James Grout
Probus:
David Horovitch
Drusilla:
Linda Marlowe
Proculus:
Jonathan Adams
Mucius:
John Webb
Envoy:
Peter Gunn
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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