Anna is very much focussed on family life with her mother seriously ill in hospital and the sudden death of her father. She also wants to help her daughter who is pregnant and is looking forward to being a grandmother. She has been posted a video of atrocities in Chechnya and wants to get it to her editor. But Anna's movements are now being closely monitored. Anna's daughter Elena names her new baby Anna Victoria.

Based on the true story of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya murdered in 2006.

Anna Politkovskaya...... Anastasia Hille
Vera Politkovskaya...... Harriet Chandler Judd
Elena Kudimova...... Fiona Clarke
Raisa Mazepa...... Pauline Jefferson
Stepan Mazepa...... David Fleeshman
Ilya Politkovsky/Surveillance Man ...... Max Bollinger

A drama in five-parts by Lizzie Nunnery

Producer Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2014. Show less