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Acropolis Now is a BBC Radio
BBC Radio

BBC Radio is a service of the BBC which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927. For a history of BBC radio prior to 1927 see British Broadcasting Company, Ltd....
 sitcom set in Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece

The term Ancient Greece refers to the period of History of Greece lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman Republic conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth ....
, written by the author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation is a non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss, the former host of the BBC Radio 4's Cutting a Dash programme....
, Lynne Truss
Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss is an England writer and journalist, best known for her popular book Eats, Shoots & Leaves....
. It was broadcast on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history....
 in two series in 2000 and 2002, with subsequent reruns
Rerun

A rerun or repeat is a re-airing of an episode of a radio or television Broadcasting. The invention of the rerun is generally credited to Desi Arnaz....
 on BBC 7
BBC 7

BBC Radio 7 is a United Kingdom Digital radio in the United Kingdom radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and children's programming nationally 24 hours a day....
 in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Acropolis Now follows the fictional adventures of historical Greek characters in Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
, Heraclitus, Aristophanes, Socrates, Xanthippe, the Oracle, and is loosely narrated by a chorus, in the convention of Greek dramas.

Aristophanes and his brother, Heraclitus, run a fish restaurant.






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Acropolis Now is a BBC Radio
BBC Radio

BBC Radio is a service of the BBC which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927. For a history of BBC radio prior to 1927 see British Broadcasting Company, Ltd....
 sitcom set in Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece

The term Ancient Greece refers to the period of History of Greece lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman Republic conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth ....
, written by the author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation is a non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss, the former host of the BBC Radio 4's Cutting a Dash programme....
, Lynne Truss
Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss is an England writer and journalist, best known for her popular book Eats, Shoots & Leaves....
. It was broadcast on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history....
 in two series in 2000 and 2002, with subsequent reruns
Rerun

A rerun or repeat is a re-airing of an episode of a radio or television Broadcasting. The invention of the rerun is generally credited to Desi Arnaz....
 on BBC 7
BBC 7

BBC Radio 7 is a United Kingdom Digital radio in the United Kingdom radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and children's programming nationally 24 hours a day....
 in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Acropolis Now follows the fictional adventures of historical Greek characters in Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
, Heraclitus, Aristophanes, Socrates, Xanthippe, the Oracle, and is loosely narrated by a chorus, in the convention of Greek dramas.

Aristophanes and his brother, Heraclitus, run a fish restaurant. Oracle, their mother, is a former keeper of the Oracle at Delphi. She constantly "sees signs", most of which turn out to be commonplace 20th century traffic sign
Traffic sign

Traffic signs or road signs are signs erected at the side of roads to provide information to road users. With increasing speed of transport, the tendency is for countries to adopt pictorial signs or otherwise simplify and standardize signs, to faciliate international travel where language differences can create barriers and in genera...
s and posters.

Xanthippe is a pervert, that is a heterosexual, in a society where homosexuality is normal. She has a crush on Socrates' friend Plato, who cannot handle her advances.

The nature of the chorus varies from episode to episode. It may be the fish deliverymen on their daily round, a gang of former Olympians
Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
 looking for a free meal, or the "unbelievably affable ones" (cheerful versions of the Furies) come to collect Socrates and take him to Hades
Hades

Hades refers both to the ancient Greek underworld, the abode of Hades, and to the god of the underworld. Hades in Homer referred just to the god; the genitive case , Haidou, was an elision to denote locality: "[the house/dominion] of Hades"....
. Several male voices speak in unison, with a lead voice underlining the occasional detail.

Cast

  • Stephen Moore
    Stephen Moore (actor)

    Stephen Moore is an England actor, known for his work on United Kingdom television in the 80s and 2000s.He is best recognised for his appearances in "Rock Follies " and other TV series such as The Last Place on Earth, the chidren's series The Queen's Nose and Chief Constable Mike Bishop in the TV drama Merseybeat and as Danny Tyrrell...
     as Heraclitus
    Heraclitus

    Heraclitus of Ephesus was a Pre-Socratic philosophy Greeks philosopher, a native of Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor.Heraclitus is known for his doctrine of change being central to the universe, and that the Logos is the fundamental order of all....
    , Aristophanes' brother and tormentor.
  • Alan Cox (actor)
    Alan Cox (actor)

    Alan Cox is a United Kingdom actor....
     as Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a prolific and much acclaimed comedy playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays have come down to us virtually complete....
    , playwright, poet, orator, and restaurateur.
  • Robert Hardy
    Robert Hardy

    Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy, Order of the British Empire is an England actor with a long career in the theatre, film and television. He is also an acknowledged expert on the longbow....
     as Socrates
    Socrates

    Socrates was a Classical Greece Philosophy. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known only through the classical accounts of his students....
  • Tom George as Plato
    Plato

    Plato , was a Classical Greece Greeks philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Platonic Academy in Ancient Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world....
    , Socrates' pupil, who will never amount to much
  • Rosemary Leach
    Rosemary Leach

    Rosemary Leach is a United Kingdom stage, television and film actress.She was born at Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Her parents were teachers and she attended grammar school and RADA....
     as Oracle
    Oracle

    An oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophecy opinion; an infallible authority, usually Spirituality in nature....
    , mother of Heraclitus and Aristophanes.
  • Rachel Atkins as Xanthippe
    Xanthippe

    Xanthippe was the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, and Menexenus. There are far more stories about her than there are facts....
    , wife of Socrates, and deviant heterosexual (Imelda Staunton
    Imelda Staunton

    Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, Order of the British Empire, is an Academy Award-nominated England actor best known for her performances in the United Kingdom comedy television series Up the Garden Path and the films Harry Potter and Vera Drake....
     in Series 2)
  • Gavin Muir as Chorus
    Greek chorus

    The Greek chorus is a group of twelve or fifteen minor actors in tragedy and twenty-four in Ancient Greek comedy plays of classical Athens....


Series 1

  • Fish
  • Games
  • Gods
  • Heroes
  • War
  • Sheep


Series 2

  • Signs
  • Love
  • Plays
  • Sons
  • Sauce
  • Food


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