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PLATONOV

Network Three
on Network Three

by Anton Chekhov
Newly translated and abridged for radio by DAVID MAGARSHACK with Richard Pasco in the name part
Norman Rossington Catherine Dolan
Shirley Ann Field
' Life, my dear Sir ... What is life? I'll tell you what it is. When a man is born he can choose one of three roads. There are no others. If he takes the road to the right, the wolves will eat him up. If he takes the road to the left, he will eat up the wolves. And if he takes the road straight ahead of him. he'll eat himself up.'
' All of us have passions and none of us have the strength to resist them.'
' Your brain tells you one thing, nature another.'
FREDERICK STONE (piano)
CARL PINI (violin)
Produced by H. B. FORTUIN
Third broadcast; first broadcast on December 6. 1963
See also Wed. at 10.0 p.m.
DURING THE INTERVAL (8.50*-9.0*) a gramophone record of Johann Strauss 's Fledermaus Quadrille played by the VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY

Contributors

Unknown:
Anton Chekhov
Unknown:
David Magarshack
Unknown:
Richard Pasco
Unknown:
Norman Rossington
Unknown:
Catherine Dolan
Unknown:
Shirley Ann Field
Produced By:
H. B. Fortuin
Unknown:
Johann Strauss
Conducted By:
Willi Boskovsky
Nicolai Triletsky, a doctor:
Norman Rossington
Anna Voynitsev, a General's young widow.:
Catherine Dolan
Sergey Voynitsev, Anna's stepson:
David Spenser
Porfiry Glagolyev, a landowner, neighbour of the Voynitsevs:
Ralph Truman
Timofey Bugrov, a merchant:
Declan Mulholland
Michael Platonov, a village teacher:
Richard Pasco
Sasha Platonov, his wife, Colonel Triletsky's daughter...:
Eva Stuart
Ivan Triletsky, a retired Colonel:
John Richmond
Abram Vengerovich:
Bob Grant
Gerasim Petrin, a neighbouring landowner..:
John Ruddock
Mary Grekov, a girl of twenty:
Josephine Stuart
Sophia Voynitsev, wife of Sergey:
Shirley Ann Field
Osip, a horse thief:
Reginald Jessup
Cyril Glagolyev, Porfiry's son:
Frederick Treves
Yakov, a servant:
Andrew Sachs
Marko, a court beadle:
Timothy Harley
Guests.:
Petronella Barker
Guests.:
Shirley Cooklin
Guests.:
Kevin Flood
Guests.:
Alan Haines
Source: Radio Times

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