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Afternoon Play: One Thousand Days, OneThousand Nights

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By Nandita Ghose. Scheherazade and Dinarzade are sisters, named afterthe storytellers of A Thousand and One Nights. The family are torn apart by the 1979 revolution in Iran and the sisters don't meet again until 25 years later, when their only way of communicating is through the old Persian fables.
Producer Peter Leslie Wild Director Jenny Stephens

Contributors

Unknown:
Nandita Ghose.
Producer:
Peter Leslie
Director:
Jenny Stephens
Scheherazade:
Souad Faress
Dinarzade:
Bharti Patel
Young Scheherazade:
Rina Mahoney
Young Dinarzade:
Natalia Keery-Flsher
jyoti:
Hema Mangoo
Mark:
Andrew Greenough
John:
Alexander Delamere
Father:
Nasser Memarzia
Mother:
Adlyn Ross
Source: Radio Times

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