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Sunday Night presenting: The Drinking Party

BBC One
on BBC One London

by Plato.
A modern recreation by Leo Aylen and Jonathan Miller.

A group of young men return to the grounds of their old school and celebrate their reunion by re-enacting Plato's great dialogue on the nature of human love.
Starring Leo McKern as Socrates

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Contributors

Author:
null Plato
Adapted by:
Leo Aylen
Adapted by/Producer/Director:
Jonathan Miller
Socrates:
Leo McKern
Pausanias:
Michael Gough
Eryxlmachus:
Alan Bennett
Aristophanes:
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Agathon:
Barry Justice
Phaedrus:
John Fortune
Alcibiades:
Robert Gillespie
Aristodemus:
Julian Jebb
Waiter:
Darroll Richards
Source: Radio Times

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