8/10 Theatre director Richard Eyre nominates Russian writer Anton Chekhov as a "great life". Rosalind Bartlett , Chekhov's latest biographer, helps to explain how he became "the nearest rival to Shakespeare". Producer Peter Everett
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8/10 Theatre director Richard Eyre nominates Russian writer Anton Chekhov as a "great life". Rosalind Bartlett , Chekhov's latest biographer, helps to explain how he became "the nearest rival to Shakespeare". Producer Peter Everett
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