Paul Scofield reads from C D N
Costa's new translation of Seneca's letters to Lucilius in five nightly programmes. Lucius Annaeus Seneca - orator, playwright, statesman and Nero's tutor
- was the leading intellectual figure in first-century Rome. The lively, humorous philosophical letters he wrote to Lucilius at the end of his life are his crowning achievement. 1: Avoid the Crowds; Befriend Your Slaves Director John Theocharis