BBC R3 - Frederick Raphael's 'The Roman Road'
Produced by Louise Greenberg
Broadcast December 3, 1995
Coded from tape at 128/44.1
Missing opening credits, and first half minute
Don't let this put you off ...  It's lovely stuff!

Frederick Raphael, author of 'The Glittering Prizes', was good
friends with classics' scholar John Patrick Sullivan. Together
they explored remnants of the classical world. In 1993 they
retraced the journey to Brundisium made in 37BCE by Horace
[Quintus Horatius Flaccus] and Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro].
It was their last trip together.

This play is Raphael's salute to the professor.

It's a mixture of learned conversations about Virgil and Horace,
the political situation in 37 BCE, Virgil and Horace's possible
conversations, and the poetry the original journey inspired.

The play closes with a short eulogy: 'In memoriam John Patrick
Sullivan, Scholar of St. John's College Cambridge, sometime
Dean Of Lincoln College Oxford, Professor Of Classics, University
of California at Santa Barbara, who made the journey with me, and
died, 1994, aged 63 ...a brave man who never threw away his shield
because, having no enemies, he had no need of one.'

Cast
Narrator - Frederick Raphael
John Patrick Sullivan - Norman Rodway
Horace - Clive Panil
Maecenas - Jamie Glover
Virgil and other voices - Derek Daniels