Anton Chekov - a life reflected in his own writings, the words of his family and friends and the characters who people his plays, in seven programmes.
1: When I Was a Child -
I Had No Childhood
'So little affection came my way as a child that I treat caresses as something unfamiliar and almost beyond my understanding now that I'm grown up.'
Mine Ranyevskaya....JANET SUZMAN With John Baddeley , Victoria Carling , John Gabriel , Charles Kay ,
Marcia King , Henry Power , Simon Treves and Geoffrey Whitehead. Director Rosemary Hart Stereo