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The Tsar's Friends
I find it a trying situation for a Friend to pass through the apartments of palace, amongst a host of servants and military, who stare as if I were not a fellow man.
In 1818 a group of Yorkshire
Quakers, led by Daniel Wheeler , embarked for St Petersburg at the invitation of Tsar
Alexander I. Their task was to drain 100,000 acres of marshland around the city. Barry Carman has compiled the human story of this great undertaking from the letters sent home over the next 23 years.
With and
George Edmondson
Narrator Valerie Windsor ProducerGILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Daniel Wheeler
Narrator:
George Edmondson
Producer:
Gillian Hush
Wheeler:
David Horovitch
his wife, Jane:
Jenny Howe
his righthand man:
David Fleeshman
Source: Radio Times

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