Bond and Glen to star in Radio 3’s Milton season
Samantha Bond and Iain Glen are to star in a new radio production of John Milton’s dramatic poem Samson Agonistes.
The show forms part of a season celebrating the 400th anniversary of the poet’s birth on BBC Radio 3.
Samson Agonistes, published in 1671, also stars Philip Madoc and Michael Maloney.
It will be broadcast on Radio 3 on Sunday, December 14 at 8pm.
Elsewhere in the season, actor Anton Lesser will read the complete Paradise Lost over 12 days, beginning on Monday, December 22 at 5pm.
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