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THE DIALOGUES OF PLATO'

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2-Phacdo
A new translation by Hugh Tredennick
Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Rayner Heppenstall
The date is 399 B.C. Socrates must take poison at sundown. He spends the day in a debate with his friends on the immortality of the' soul. This debate is reported some years later to a group of Peloponnesian disciples by Phaedo. who took part in it

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Translation By:
Hugh Tredennick
Produced By:
Rayner Heppenstall
Socrates:
Arthur Young
Phaedo:
Ivan Samson
Echecrates:
Arthur Ridley
Simmias:
Raf de la Torre
Cebes:
Basil Jones
Crito:
J Hubert Leslie
Gaoler:
Stanley Groome
Xanthippe:
Gladys Spencer
Narrator:
Anthony Jacobs
Source: Radio Times

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