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The Sunday Play: Cancer Ward

BBC Radio 3
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By Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Set in 1955 in a cancer hospital in Tashkent, this Soviet classic is a metaphor for the corruption endemic under Stalin, as revealed in Khrushchev's "thaw".
Dramatised by Olwen Wymark Director Alison Hindell. Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Dramatised By:
Olwen Wymark
Director:
Alison Hindell.
Oleg Kostoglotov:
Malcolm Storry
Pavel Nikolayevich Rusanov:
David Ryall
Vera Komilyevna Gangart:
Melanie Walters
Ludmila Afanasyevna Dontsova:
Gillian Barge
Yefrem Podduyev:
Dorien Thomas
Dyoma:
Robert Harper
Vadim:
Simon Ludders
Alexei Shulubin:
Jonathan Adams
Zoya:
Rhian Hefin
Proshka:
Christian Patterson
Asya:
Siriol Jenkins
Lev Leonodovich:
Richard Elfyn
Kapa Rusanova:
Christine Pritchard
Source: Radio Times

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