Kerensky and the counter-revolutionary Cossacks are making gains and threatening Petrograd.

Reed visits the Revolutionary frontline with the Bolshevik commander-in-chief - who seems less than organised.

John Reed's classic eye-witness account of the Russian Revolution in October 1917.

Stars Richard Laing and Kelly Burke.

Dramatised by Robin Brooks

John Reed ..... Richard Laing
Comberg ..... Matthew Gravelle
Colonel ..... Nicholas Murchie
Dybenko ..... Richard Nichols
Antonov ..... Sion Pritchard

With Simon Ludders, Tom Forrister and Philip Fox

Director: Alison Hindell

A BBC Cymru/Wales production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2017. Show less