The Anger of Achilles by Robert Graves

A BBC Radio dramatization by the noted historical novelist Robert Graves of his translation of Homer's Iliad.

Phemias, son of Homer; a bard ... Denis Quilley
Agammemnon, King of Mycenae ... Maurice Denham
Achilles ... Robert Hardy
Menelaus, King of Sparta ... John Boxer
Odysseus, King of Ithaca ... John Slater
Diomedes, King of Argos ... Alan Haines
Patroclus ... Kevin Flood
Priam, King of Troy ... Peter O'Shaughnessy
Hector, Prince of Troy/Talthybius, Herald to the Greeks ... Gabriel Woolf
Paris, Prince of Troy/Son of Nestor ... Trader Faulkner
Hecuba, wife of Priam ... Olga Lindo
Andromache, wife of Hector ... Nicolette Bernard
Chryses, Priest of Apollo ... James Thomason
Calchas, Prophet with the Greek Army ... Norman Claridge
Nestor, King of Pylus ... Norman Shelley
Thetis, sea goddess, mother to Achilles ... Molly Rankin
Zeus, King of the Gods ... Francis de Wolff
Hera, wife of Zeus ... Isla Cameron
Athene, Goddess of Wisdom ... Jill Balcon
Ares, God of War/Poseidon, God of the Sea/Polydamus, a Trojan Councillor ... Bruce Beeby
Hephaestus, the Smith-God ... Fraser Kerr
Aphrodite, Goddess of Love ... Christina Gray
Briseis ... Mary Wimbush
Morpheus, God of Sleep ... Ralph Truman
Thersites ... Kenneth Hyde
A King ... William Fox
False Dream ... Jo Manning Wilson
Other Parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company with the BBC Women's Chorus

Music by Roberto Gerhard
Performed by the BBC Welsh Orchestra
Conducted by Rae Jenkins and Peter Gellhorn

Produced by Raymond Raikes and Robert Hardy

Broadcast on the BBC Home Service 17 - 31 May 1964

Episode 1 00:00
Episode 2 54:51
Episode 3 1:50:27

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