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Sunday Play: Cancer Ward

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By Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Set in 1955 in a cancer hospital in Tashkent, this classic of the Soviet period is a metaphor for the corruption endemic under Stalin, as revealed in Khrushchev's "thaw".
Dramatised by Olwen Wymark.

Contributors

Author:
Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Dramatised by:
Olwen Wymark
Composer:
Colin Sell
Director:
Alison Hindell
Oleg Kostoglotov:
Malcolm Storry
Pavel Nikolayevich Rusanov:
David Ryall
Vera Kornilyevna Gangart:
Melanie Walters
Ludmila Afahasyevna Dontsova:
Gillian Barge
Yefrem Podduyev:
Dorien Thomas
Dyoma:
Rob Harper
Vadim:
Simon Ludders
Alexei Shulubin:
Jonathan Adams
Zoya:
Rhian Hefin
[Actor]:
Christian Patterson
[Actor]:
Siriol Jenkins
[Actor]:
Richard Elfyn
[Actor]:
Christine Pritchard
[Actor]:
James Greene
[Actor]:
Dafydd Wyn Roberts
[Actor]:
Stevie Parry
Source: Radio Times

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