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The Saturday Play: Old-World

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By Aleksei Arbuzov, adapted by Jonathan Holloway from a translation by Ariadne Nicolaeff. The Gulf of Riga, August 1968. Lydia is an eccentric new patient at the sanatorium where Rodion is head. Neither of them is youthful - both have suffered in life and they have very different characters - but something draws them to each other and a rapport is built beyond the doctor-patient relationship. When her stay is up, can Lydia leave him?

Contributors

Writer:
Aleksei Arbuzov
Adapted By:
Jonathan Holloway, from a translation by: Ariadne Nicolaeff
Director:
Anastasia Tolstoy
Lydia:
Marcia Warren
Rodion:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Composer:
Peter Michaels
Source: Radio Times

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