The Drinking Party

Jonathan Miller’s Sunday Night Play from 14/11/1965. Jonathan Miller plays Plato’s “Symposium“ as a picnic organized by an OxBridge don for his students. The entertaining script is faithful to the drinking party recorded by Plato, where Socrates asks each guest to explain the nature of Love. By a series of questions, Socrates leads the guests to conclude that Love is the Highest Good, and that God is Love. This Socratic dialogue may be said to be the basis for Western Philosophy.