by Terence Tiller based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov
with Ian Holm

Nabokov himself said that Luzhin, the central character of his book, has been found lovable even by those who understand nothing about chess and/or detest all his other books.
'He is uncouth, unwashed, uncomely, but there is something in him that transcends both the coarseness of his grey flesh and the sterility of his recondite genius.'
(Rptd: next Sun at 2.30)