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Sunday Play: An Informer's Duty

BBC Radio 3
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By Greg Cullen. Leningrad, 1937.
Shostakovich is under official attack as Stalin's terror decimates his world. He cannot compose Soviet anthems, his fourth symphony is too dangerous to perform - and yet, as the Soviet Union's premier composer, he must respond to the times. with Simon Ludders , Ian Rowlands ,
Manon Edwards. Chris Rowbury and Jeremy Thomas
8.55 Shostakovich Symphony No 5 BBCSO, conductor Andrew Davis
Play director Alison Hindell Revised repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Greg Cullen.
Unknown:
Simon Ludders
Unknown:
Ian Rowlands
Unknown:
Manon Edwards.
Unknown:
Chris Rowbury
Unknown:
Jeremy Thomas
Conductor:
Andrew Davis
Director:
Alison Hindell
Shostakovich:
Jonathan Cullen
Anna Akhmatova:
Fiona Shaw
Stalin:
John Shrapnel
Nina:
Melange Walters
Sofia:
Christine Pritchard
Zoshchenko:
Mark Straker
Tukhachevsky:
Ric Jerrom
Source: Radio Times

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