In Our Time | Antigone
Based on The Theban Plays by Sophocles
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Sophocles' tragedy of dilemmas, where King Creon threatens death to anyone who buries a traitor and that traitor's sister, Antigone, defies him.
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Licence: ERA Licence required
- Type: Analysis
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Duration: 52'57''
- Broadcast date: 2022
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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- Literary Resource
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