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Uncomfortable truths

Wednesday, 13th February 2008

The Trial and Death of Socrates (BBC Radio 3); The Jazz Baroness (BBC Radio 4)

There was something ironic about a play entitled The Trial and Death of Socrates being broadcast on the weekend that our own great thinker, Rowan Williams, was undergoing what may turn out to be the biggest trial of his career. Maybe he tuned in on Sunday evening to Drama on 3 and heard Joss Ackland as Socrates manfully refusing to kowtow to the tyranny of wilful ignorance by declaring, ‘Would I have chosen this path for myself...if I did not believe I had a duty...to raise you from your complacency?’

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