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"I'm not unhappy. I mean, I am at the moment, but ... when you consider how pleasant my job is, how well-fed and privileged and comfortable I am, and how easy it is for me to be tolerant and compassionate, it does seem perverse to be unhappy as well, doesn't it? I mean, to be unhappy on top of all that does seem unreasonably self-indulgent, don't you think?".

An aspiring young playwright provides an unexpected beginning to events at an older English university.

Gathering one November evening, the witty guests at a lecturer's dinner party both quarrel and flirt with each other.

Then comes the morning after the night before…..

Starring George Cole, Charles Gray and John Rye

Christopher Hampton's bourgeois comedy set against harrowing events in the real world.

Philip .... George Cole
Braham .... Charles Gray
Donald .... John Rye
JCelia .... Frances Jeater
Araminta .... Anna Carteret
John .... David Graham

Director: Walter Acosta

First broadcast on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 in May 1976.

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'The Philanthropist’ is part of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra's Hidden Treasures collection selected from titles returned to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ by various collectors.

Our warm thanks go to the Radio Circle.

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