- Unknown:
- Anton Chekhov
- Broadcasting By:
- Cynthia Pughe
- Translation By:
- Constance Garnett
- Piano:
- Cicely Hoye
- Cello:
- Eleanor Warren
- Guitar:
- Alexis Chesnakov
- Produced By:
- Mary Hope Allen
- Misha Borkin Ivanov's cousin and steward of his estate:
- George Hayes
- Nicolas Ivanov, a landowner:
- John Gielgud
- Count Shabelsky, his uncle:
- Esmé Percy
- Anna Petrovna, his wife:
- Irene Worth
- Dr Lvov:
- Paul Rogers
- First guest:
- Roose Evans
- Second guest:
- John Vere
- Third guest:
- Eileen Thorndike
- Fourth guest:
- Mary Williams
- Zinaida Lebedyev, Pavel's wife:
- Ann Codrington
- Marfa Babakin, a rich widow:
- Mollie Maureen
- Avdotya Nazarovna:
- Dorothy Holmes-Gore
- Dimitri Kossih:
- Eric Anderson
- Pavel Lebedyev:
- George Rose
- Sasha, his daughter:
- Rosemary Harris
