Anton Chekhov - a life reflected in his own writings, the words of his family and friends and the characters who people his plays, in seven programmes.
'My nom de plume is probably odd and fantastic. But it originated in the dawn of my misty youth. Medicine takes itself seriously, but the game of literature requires pseudonyms.'
Reader John Rowe.
With Alice Arnold, John Baddeley, John Bull, Michael Graham Cox, Tara Dominick, John Gabriel, Michael Kilgarriff, John Moffatt, Jane Slavin, Simon Treves and Geoffrey Whitehead.
Producer Rosemary Hart
(Stereo)
