Melvyn Bragg
speaker
958 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 17 Sep
Melvyn Bragg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah,
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Let's just get down briefly.
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Why do I say briefly?
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I've got plenty of time.
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The idea of Athenian democracy, it's male, it's free men, and then they govern by lot.
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Can you just develop it
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And every citizen was supposed to take part in wars.
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That's right, yeah.
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So it's quite a developed idea of what they have to do, even though it seems to us a narrow idea of who they are.
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What use does Plato make of Socrates in this book?
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In the end he was put to death in 399 BC and it was to the great grief of Plato.
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Yes.
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Can you just
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not what corrupting meant, morally corrupting.
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It didn't mean corrupting their ideas.
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It meant corrupting their persons.
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But in Plato's life, Socrates was a massive, major, very important figure.
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Yeah, he's a bit of a celebrity.
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And he blamed democracy for the death of Socrates.
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