BBC R3 - John Spurling's 'The Heresy'
Directed by Richard Wortley
Broadcast June 3, 2001
Coded from tape at 128/44.1
The story of Hypatia, female Alexandrine mathematician
and philosopher, killed by a mob of christians, 415CE
The play explores the conflict between Christian orthodoxy
and neo-Platonism, and the consequences of mixing politics
and faith.
Cast
Julia Ford - Hypatia
John Rowe - Orestes
Robert Glenister - Cyril
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