- Unknown:
- Ivan Turgenev
- Translated By:
- Constance Garnett
- Adapted By:
- Cynthia Pughe
- Produced By:
- Mary Hope Allen
- Narrator:
- Brian Hayes
- Mihail Alexandrovitch Rakitin:
- Godfrey Keniton
- Natalya Petrovna, wife of Arkady Islayev:
- Margaret Leighton
- Anna Semyonovna Islayev, Arkady Islayev's mother:
- Elsa Palmer
- Lizaveta Bogdanovna, her companion:
- Hester Pat On Brown
- Kolya, Arkady and Natalya's son:
- Christopher Langley
- Alexey Nikolayevitch Beliayev, the Russian tutor:
- Nigel Stock
- Matvey, a manservant:
- Brian Hayes
- Dr Ignaty Ilyitch Shpigelsky:
- Ronald Simpson
- Vera, Nata)ya's ward:
- Peggy Bryan
- Arkady Sergeyitch Islayev, Natalya's husband:
- Michael Shepley
- Katya a maid:
- Mollie Maureen
- Afanasy Ivanovitch- Bolshintsov, a neighbour:
- John Ruddock
