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Love Stories

Anna Karenina - Episode 1

Duration: 57 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Tolstoy's powerful drama of desire, transgression and heartache dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths. Presented as part of the BBC Radio 4's 'Love Stories' series.

Levin loves Kitty, but has a rival in Count Alexei Vronsky. When Anna Karenina arrives in Moscow everything changes. Despite being married, Anna feels herself magnetically drawn to Vronsky. Will their desire be too powerful to contain?

ANNA KARENINA.....Kate Phillips
ALEXEI VRONSKY.....Alfred Enoch
ALEXEI KARENIN.....Rory Kinnear
KONSTANTIN 'KOSTYA' LEVIN.....Sacha Dhawan,
KATERINA 'KITTY' SHCHERBATSKAYA.....Anneika Rose
DARYA 'DOLLY' OBLONSKAYA.....Rosalie Craig
STEPAN 'STIVA' OBLONSKY....Adetomiwa Edun
COUNTESS VRONSKAYA.....Leah Marks
GUARD.....Hasan Dixon

Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths
Directed by Nadia Molinari
Sound design by Sharon Hughes

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