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The Silence of Isaac Babel

BBC Radio 3
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Compiled and narrated by Gerald Roberts
Additional research by EPHRAIM SICHER
On 15 May 1939 Isaac Babel , one of the most original figures of modern Russian literature, was arrested by the security police at his home in a writers' colony outside Moscow. Hardly given time to dress, he was taken to the Lubianka prison. He was never seen again. with Anthony Newlands as Isaac Babel and with contributions by MAX HAYWARD , DR JOHN BRADLEY and EPHRAIM SICHER
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
BBC Bristol

Contributors

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Gerald Roberts
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Ephraim Sicher
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Isaac Babel
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Anthony Newlands
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Isaac Babel
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Max Hayward
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Dr John Bradley
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Ephraim Sicher
Directed By:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Ilya Ehrenburg:
Alaric Cotter
Antonina Pirozhkova:
June Barrie
Nadezhda Mandelstam:
Daphne Beard
Maxim Gorky:
Robert Trotter
General Budyonny:
Nicholas Simons
Konstantin Paustovsky:
Mark Wing-Davey
Joseph Stalin:
Manning Wilson
Sergei Prokofiev:
Rex Holdsworth
Natalie:
Louise Jameson
Source: Radio Times

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