by Ivan Turgenev
A radio script by Barbara Bray based on the translation by Richard Hare
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by Gladys Spencer. Hilda Schroder
Haydn Jones , Michael Turner
Pianist, Clifton Helliwell
Produced by Barbara Bray
Dmitri Nikolavevich Rudin is a man who can speak inspiringly of noble thoughts and ideals, but cannot match them with his actions. Turgenev tells what disaster this discrepancy brings to Rudin himself and to others, and how time teaches them all a true appraisal of his strange and fatal gift.