BBC R4 - The Iliad

BBC R4 - Homer's 'Iliad'

Translated by Robert Fagles

Adapted by Tom Holland

Music by Mia Soteriou

Sound Supervision by Mike Burgess

Produced by Jeremy Howe and Viv Beeby

Broadcast June 2 and 9, 2002

Coded from tape at 128/44.1



Homer's stunning description of the Greek conquest of Troy.



Apart from internal evidence, little is known about this work.  One

thing we do know though is that it was already old in the 6thC BCE.



Cast

Hector - Ian Glenn

Helen - Imogen Stubbs

Agamemnon - Bill Wallis

Andromache - Susanah Hamilton

Achilles - Christopher Eccleston

Athena - Susanah Hamilton

Priam - Andrew Sachs

Hecuba - Mia Soteriou

Prises - Clive Mantel

Hera - Mia Soteriou

Paris - Tom Espiner

Odysseus - Michael Elgin

Minneleus - John MacKay

Zeus - Michael Fenton-Stevens

Thetis - Jacqueline Tonge

Patroklas - Jamie Glover

Apollo - Chris Donnelly

Homer - Derek Jacobi