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Tolstoy - At War and Peace: 3: Artificial Nightingales

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The life story of the author acclaimed by his contemporaries as "the greatest man in Russia", compiled from his letters and diaries, the words of his family and friends and the characters who people his books.
With Norman Rodway as Count Leo Tolstoy.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Compiled by:
Michael Bakewell
Reader:
John Rowe
Director:
Rosemary Hart
Count Leo Tolstoy:
Norman Rodway
Young Tolstoy:
Nicholas Farrell
Sasha Tolstoy:
Alice Arnold
Sergei Tolstoy:
Alan Barker
Marya Tolstoy:
Melinda Walker
Turgenev:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Alexandrine:
Rosalie Crutchley
Fet:
David King
Masha:
Victoria Carling
Nekrasov:
Peter Penry Jones
The Countess:
Elizabeth Kelly
Prime Andrei:
Nigel Carrington
Source: Radio Times

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