- Unknown:
- Anton Chekhov
- Broadcasting By:
- Cynthia Pughe
- Unknown:
- Constance Garnett
- Produced By:
- Hugh Stewart
- Nikolas Ivanov:
- Val Gielgud
- Anna Petrovna, his wife:
- Jeanne de Casalis
- Misha Borkin, his cousin, and steward of his estate:
- Eliot Makeham
- Count Shabelsky, uncle to Ivanov:
- Ivor Barnard
- Dr Lvov:
- Raf de Latorre
- Pavel Lebedyev, a neighbour:
- Richard Williams
- Zinaida Lebedyev, Pavel's wife:
- Ann Codrington
- Sasha, their daughter:
- Belle Chrystall
- Marfa Babakin a rich widow:
- Olive Gregg
- Dimitri Kossih:
- Alexander Sarner
- Avdotya Nazarovna:
- Gladys Spencer
- First guest:
- Arthur Howard
- Second guest:
- David Kossoff
- Third guest:
- Vanessa Thornton
- Fourth guest:
- Anne Cullen
