3-' Aristotle's Mother:
An Argument in Athens '
Written for broadcasting by Herbert Read and produced by Rayner Heppenstall
With Alan Wheatley as Aristotle, Ivan Samson as Protogenes, and Norman Shelley as Apelles
The date is 330 B.C. Protogenes. the painter, brings a portrait of Aristotle's mother, Phaestis. to the Lyceum, where the philosopher is teaching. Perplexed by Aristotle's utilitarian view of art, Protogenes later seeks the company of a fellow-painter, Apelles, and Aristotle's view is condemned by the two followed by Interlude