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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 Âé¶¹Éç Pebble Mill by Brian King.
First broadcast on Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4 in April 2002.
Last on
Thu 24 Jul 2025
04:30
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