Trotsky has claimed victory over the Cossacks and Kerensky is asking for an armistice.

Reed sets out once more for the front line with a driver who takes a dim view of American democracy, and finds himself up against the illiterate brutality of the Red Guard.

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

Stars Richard Laing and Kelly Burke.

John Reed ...... Richard Laing
Louise Bryant ...... Kelly Burke
Colonel ...... Nicholas Murchie
Kameniev ...... Ewan Bailey
Dybenko ...... Richard Nichols
Baklanov ...... Richard Elfyn
Leonsky ...... Sion Pritchard

Director: Alison Hindell

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