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Real-life Love Stories

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A series of three programmes 1: How comical my happiness by L. MALYUGIN translated by OLGA FRANKLIN with Derek Godfrey as Anton Chekhov and Prunella Scales as Olga Knipper
Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper met, fell in love and married. For a while they lived apart, but for four years wrote to each other almost every day. This programme is based on their letters.
Adapted for radio and produced by CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Contributors

Unknown:
L. Malyugin
Translated By:
Olga Franklin
Unknown:
Derek Godfrey
Unknown:
Anton Chekhov
Unknown:
Prunella Scales
Unknown:
Olga Knipper
Unknown:
Anton Chekhov
Unknown:
Olga Knip
Produced By:
Christopher Venning
Narrator:
Alan Rowe
Alexander Chekhov:
Brian Haines
Maria:
Hilda Schroder
Maxim Gorky:
Vernon Joyner
Source: Radio Times

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