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Customers drop like flies, when Heraclitus adds hemlock to the cockroach fritters. Stars Stephen Moore. From 2002.

Customers drop like flies, when Heraclitus adds hemlock to the cockroach fritters.

The Spartan siege of Athens is now into its ninth month.

Food has all but run out at the Acropolis Fish Restaurant.

Ancient Greek comedy by Lynne Truss.

Heraclitus …….. Stephen Moore
Aristophanes …….. Alan Cox
Socrates …….. Robert Hardy
Xanthippe …….. Imelda Staunton
Plato …….. Tom George

Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Brian King.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2002.

30 minutes

Last on

Thu 24 Jul 202504:30
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