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The Sunday Play: An Informer's Duty

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

by Greg Cullen.
With Jonathan Cullen as Shostakovich, Fiona Shaw as Anna Akhmatova and John Shrapnel as Stalin. Leningrad 1937:
Shostakovich is under official attack as all around him Stalin's Terror decimates his world. He cannot compose Soviet anthems, his Fourth Symphony is too dangerous to perform - and yet as the Soviet Union's top composer he must respond to his times.
Director Alison Hindell

Contributors

Unknown:
Greg Cullen.
Unknown:
Jonathan Cullen
Unknown:
Fiona Shaw
Unknown:
Anna Akhmatova
Unknown:
John Shrapnel
Director:
Alison Hindell
Nina:
Melanie Walters
Sofia:
Christine Pritchard
Zoshchenko:
Mark Straker
Tukhachevsky:
Ric Jerrom
Tikhon:
Simon Ludders
Mandelstam:
Ian Rowlands
Nadezhda:
Manon Edwards
Interrogator:
Chris Rowbury
Soldier:
Jeremy Thomas
Source: Radio Times

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