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Drama on 3: Macedonia

15/02/2015

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Michael Pennington stars as Euripides in exile, determined to write a play for the King.

By David Rudkin. Michael Pennington stars as the Greek poet and playwright Euripides who, in exile in Macedonia, begins to hear strange voices from a mountainside.

A new play by David Rudkin, starring Michael Pennington as the Greek poet and playwright Euripides.

Euripides has gone into self-imposed exile in the wilds of Macedonia. Determined to write an uncontroversial play for the king, he keeps catching sounds from the mountainside, sounds which lead him to the subject matter of his final, shocking drama, The Bacchae.

Sound design by David Chilton

A Catherine Bailey Production for BBC Radio 3

First broadcast February 2015.

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