On the Eve by IVAN TURGENEV
(1818-83), translated by GILBERT GARDINER abridged for radio by KEITH DARVILL First of ten parts
Read by Claire Bloom
A poignant love story set in Russia in the middle of the last century. Elena and her lover, Insarov, the young revolutionary, act out their doomed affair against a background of imminent social and political change.
Producer MAURICE LE1TCH