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Acropolis Now

Series 1

Sheep

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 7Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for 8 months

Socrates and friends enter the Intellectual Olympics, but Heraclitus is side-tracked.

Ancient Greek comedy by Lynne Truss.

Heraclitus …. Stephen Moore
Aristophanes …. Alan Cox
Socrates …. Robert Hardy
The Oracle …. Rosemary Leach
Plato …. Tom George
Xanthippe …. Rachel Atkins
The Chorus …. Gavin Muir

Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Brian King.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2001. Show less

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