Director
Brian Large
DIRECTOR
Jonathan Miller
John Drummond
Michel Mitrani
Allan King
Robert Vas
Casper Wrede
John Boorman
Malcolm Brown
Francis Coleman
Ken Russell
Stars (in credits order)
Tony Church
Narrator
Leo McKern
Socrates
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Self
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Aristophanes
Georg Solti
John Culshaw
Peter Ustinov
Robert Gillespie
Alcibiades
Darroll Richards
The Waiter
Peter Hall
George Steiner
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Themselves
Kenneth van Barthold
Self - Presenter
John Berger
Birgit Nilsson
Self - Singer (Brünnhilde)
Georges Delerue
John Franklyn-Robbins
The Artist (Arthur King)
Rene Cutforth
Self - Reporter
Pablo Picasso
Self - Subject
Wolfgang Windgassen
Self - Singer (Siegfried)
Sheila Allen
Ruth
Ronald Adam
Crito
Gottlob Frick
Self - Singer (Hagen)
Peter Bowles
Melville
Peter Eyre
Simmias
Henry Livings
Cebes
Alexandra Malcolm
Jean
Claire Watson
Self - Singer (Gutrune)
Ingrid Hafner
Ursula
David de Keyser
Doctor
Freda Dowie
Xanthippe
Alexander Cranfield Abbot
Journalist
Gordon Parry
Self - The Recording Team
George Tute
Jim
James Brown
Catherine Rodgers
Rebecca
Christopher Raeburn
Richard Howard
Photographer
Jack Law
Erik Smith
Humphrey Burton
Self - Narrator
Ian Holm
Self - Reader
Susannah York
Michael Gough
Pausanias
Alan Bennett
Eryximachus
Christopher Isherwood
John Fortune
Phaedrus
Igor Stravinsky
Barry Justice
Agathon
Jacques B. Brunius
Commentary spoken by
W.H. Auden
Ewan MacColl
Commentator
Malcolm Muggeridge
Julian Jebb
Aristodemus
H.C. Robbins Landon
Peter Duval Smith
Max-Pol Fouchet
Dudley Moore
Eleanor Bron
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Michele Dotrice
Self - Actress
Michael Jayston
Self - Actor
Vittorio De Sica
Silvana Mangano
Luchino Visconti
Self - Interviewee
Peter Brook
Kenneth Haigh
Daniel Dunglas Home
Leonard Bernstein
Antony Hopkins
Maria Callas
Derek Godfrey
ACTOR
Barbara Murray
Bernard Miles
John Ringham
Robert Robinson
Denys Hawthorne
George Bernard Shaw
Davyd Harries
Benny Goodman
Léonide Massine
John Hopkins
Richard Moore
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Paul Hardwick
Mary McCarthy
Charles Kuralt
John Donat
London Symphony Orchestra
Arnold Wesker
Anthony Dawes
George Balanchine
Charles Collingwood
Kenneth Clark
Gabrielle Hamilton
Daniel Barenboim
Self - Pianist
Kenneth Tynan
Ellen Dryden
Charles Marowitz
Suzanne Farrell
Richard Baker
Self - Introduction
Hugh Casson
Brian Wright
Janet Baker
Self - Contralto
The Philharmonia Orchestra
John Braine
Ann Jellicoe
Sandra Williams
Henry Moore
Yehudi Menuhin
Self - Conductor
Huw Wheldon
Eugene Ormandy
Christopher Nupen
Gianfranco Cecchele
Adrian Boult
Frank Dunlop
Alberto Giacometti
Suzanne Sarroca
C.P. Snow
Moura Lympany
Self - Soloist
Frank Hauser
Carlo Maria Giulini
Hephzibah Menuhin
Günther Weisenborn
Edward Lucie-Smith
Henry Williamson
Brendan Kennelly
Augustin Anievas
Harry Watton
Richard Hoggart
Paris Opéra Ballet School Students
Imogen Holst
Rodney Friend
Self - Orchestra Leader
Boris Brott
Victor Gollancz
Yaltah Menuhin
Geoffrey Gorer
Norman Podhoretz
Peter Frankl
Daniel Wayenberg
Ian Hunter
Jeremy Menuhin
Jennifer Vyvyan
Self - Soprano
Kostas Paskalis
Yonty Solomon
Cyril Smith
Riccardo Aragno
Self - Interviewer
Bernard Keeffe
Robert Craft
Noel Annan
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Toby Robertson
Frank O'Connor
Ernest Fleischmann
Micheline Gautron
Self - Delerue's wife(uncredited)