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Stalin's Mercy

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Seven scenes, reconstructed by JAMES GREENE. from the life of the Russian poet
Osip Emilevich Mandelshtam , who died in Eastern Siberia 50 years ago, aged 47, on the way to a concentration camp.
SEBASTIAN BELL (flute)
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS

Contributors

Unknown:
James Greene.
Unknown:
Osip Emilevich Mandelshtam
Directed By:
John Theocharis
Osip:
John Woodvine
Nadezhda:
Harriet Walter
Schvab:
John Moffatt
First criminal/Stalin:
Michael Graham Cox
Second criminal/Agent:
Richard Tate
Victor Alexandrovich:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Singer:
Eva Stuart
Little boy:
Richard Pearce
Russian reader:
Boris Isarov
Source: Radio Times

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