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War and Peace

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

medium only by LEO TOLSTOY
A dramatisation in 20 parts from the translation by Louise AND AYLMER MAUDE edited by MICHAEL BAKEWELL with David Buck , Kate Binchy Martin Jarvis , Anna Cropper Christopher Guinee Jeremy Clyde
Denys Hawthorne as Tolstoy
'What is War and Peace? It is not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle. War and Peace is what the author wished and was able to express in the form in which it is expressed.'
1: St Petersburg, 1805
Directed by RONALD MASON , executive producer
(First broadcast in 1969)

Contributors

Unknown:
Leo Tolstoy
Unknown:
Aylmer Maude
Edited By:
Michael Bakewell
Unknown:
David Buck
Unknown:
Kate Binchy
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Anna Cropper
Unknown:
Christopher Guinee
Unknown:
Jeremy Clyde
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Directed By:
Ronald Mason
Adapted by:
Michael Bakewell
Anna Scherer ::
Madi Hedd
Prince Vasili Kuragin:
James Thomason
Princess Lisa Bolkonskaya:
Anna Cropper
Count Pierre Bezukov:
David Buck
Anna Scherer's aunt/Vera Ros:
Tova Margaret Wolfit
Hippolyte Kuragin:
Jeremy Clyde
Vicomte de Mortemart:
Michael Deacon
Helene Kuragina:
Sonia Fraser
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky:
Martin Jarvis
Princess Drubetskaya:
Daphne Newton
Anatole Kuragin:
Sean Arnold
Fedya Dolokhov:
Sean Barrett
Countess Rostova:
Ilona Ference
Count Ilya Rostov:
David March
Madame Karagina:
Margot Boyd
Julie Karagina:
Alexa Romanes
Natasha Rostova:
Kate Binchy
Nicolai Rostov:
Christopher Guinee
Petya Rostov:
Derek Seaton
Boris Drubetskoy:
John Rye
Source: Radio Times

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