Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ferocious speeches Demosthenes gave to stir up his fellow Athenians against their enemy Philip II of Macedon and so abandon appeasement. Show more Melvyn Bragg ...

And among all the Greek sponge-divers of Tarpon Springs last week, jovial young Demosthenes Kananis, who has been less than a year in the new world, was unquestioned hero. With covert glances the ...

Orator Demosthenes practiced speaking with a mouthful of pebbles. Orator Lewis, unschooled, presumably taught himself to speak with a mouthful of nut coal. In other years his resonant, impressive ...