by Anton Chekhov, translated by Elisaveta Fen, with Paul Scofield, Jill Bennett, Lynn Redgrave, Rosalie Crutchley, Wilfrid Lawson, Ian McKellen, George Cole, Terry Scully, Gudrun Ure and David Buck
The action takes place in a county town in Russia at the turn of this century.
(First broadcast in 1965)
(After Moscow by Arnold Yarrow, on Radio 4UK tomorrow evening at 7.45 pm, suggests what the lives of Chekhov's characters may have been like 20 years after the end of Three Sisters)
