The Drinking Party

46 mins
An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. Each guest is asked to explain the nature of love before the Don, through a series of questions, reaches a unifying conclusion.

Leo McKern

Socrates

Alan Bennett

Eryximachus

John Fortune

Phaedrus

Michael Gough

Pausanias

Roddy Maude-Roxby

Aristophanes

Julian Jebb

Aristomedus

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