by EVALD FLISAR
A newly-created judge, Aleksei Mishkin. arrives from St Petersburg at an isolated Court House in the wilds of Siberia to take up his first appointment. But there aren't many cases and he begins to wonder what he and his three fellow judges are going to do With themselves.
'Yessenin. ANDREW HILTON BIBS EKKEL (balalaika)
Directed hy BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol followed by an interlude