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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Drama on 3

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Series of drama performances, ranging from experimental works to the Classics

John Hodge

Chris Wallis

Alex Jennings

Jacqueline Defferary

Patrick Godfrey

Maggie Service

Pierce Reid

William Postlethwaite

Jess Murphy

Lloyd Hutchinson

Marcus Cunningham

Nick Sampson

Michael Jenn

Perri Snowdon

Sarah Annis

Simon Russell Beale

George Fenton

Nadia Fall

Drama on 3: Collaborators, by John Hodge

Drama: Historical

Drama: Political

Collaborators

30/09/2012

Collaborators, by John Hodge

BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, Collaborators, by John Hodge

Drama depicting the relationship between Mikhail Bulgakov and Josef Stalin.

By John Hodge. Alex Jennings and Simon Russell Beale star in a play depicting the relationship between writer Mikhail Bulgakov and Josef Stalin.

Directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner. Alex Jennings stars as Mikhail Bulgakov and Simon Russell Beale as Stalin in the acclaimed National Theatre production.

Moscow, 1938: A dangerous place to have a sense of humour, even more so a sense of freedom. The writer Mikhail Bulgakov, living among the dissidents, stalked by secret police, has both. After 3 years rehearsal his new play about Moliere has just opened, and may be just about to close unless he accepts a commission from the secret police to write a play to celebrate Stalin's sixtieth birthday. A poison chalice which he struggles to accept, until he receives an offer of help from the most unlikely quarter. 

Based on historical fact, John Hodge's blistering new play depicts a lethal game of cat and mouse as the writer loses himself in a macabre and disturbingly funny relationship with the omnipotent subject of his drama.

A huge success at the National Theatre, Collaborators transferred from the Cottesloe to the Olivier to extend its run by public demand. 

John Hodge's other credits include the film Shallow Grave, and screen adaptations of Trainspotting and The Beach.

An original stage play by John Hodge. Adapted for radio by John Hodge and Chris Wallis

Directed for the National Theatre stage by Sir Nicholas Hytner
Radio adaptation directed by Nadia Fall
Technical Presentation Nick Taylor and David Fleming Williams
Produced by Chris Wallis

First broadcast 30/09/2012.

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