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
Barry Justice
Agathon
Michael Gough
Pausanias
Robert Gillespie
Alcibiades
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Aristophanes
Julian Jebb
Aristomedus
Darroll Richards
Waiter
Jonathan Miller
Director, Writer, Producer
Leo Aylen
Writer
Feb 21, 2008
Dec 25, 2005
Oct 10, 2004
Feb 21, 2003
Jul 13, 2006
May 4, 2000
Jul 9, 2010
Jun 22, 2018
BBC
GB
United Kingdom
