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When Maxim Gorky Met Lenin

on BBC Home Service Basic

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Sixth in the series of 'famous meetings' by Robert Gittings
Produced by John Burrell (by permission of H M Tennent, Ltd )
London, May 1907. At a conference hall: later at the Hippodrome
Exactly a quarter of a century ago, Maxim Gorky met Lenin in London. This meeting, reconstructed in this programme, was the beginning of a friendship which lasted all their lives.

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Gittings
Produced By:
John Burrell
Unknown:
Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky:
Peter Ustinov
Marya, his wife:
Miki Iveria
Rosa Luxembourg:
Valerie Lowe
Leon Trotsky:
James McKechnie
Lenin:
Herbert Lom

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