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Award Winners: The Kreutzer Sonata

on BBC Radio 3

by LEO TOLSTOY translated and adapted for radio by PETER FARAGO with This is the third of three plays from amongst those which received major awards in 1979. David Suchet won the Society of Authors Pye Radio Award for the best radio performance by an actor.
Adapted as a dramatic monologue, this is the chilling account of a married man tortured by jealousy and driven to murder his wife.
Producer GORDON HOUSE
(First broadcast on BBC World Service in September 1978)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Farago
Pozdnyshev:
David Suchet

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