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Mike Walker's epic chronicle of the Russian tsars.

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Shaun Dooley

Elizabeth Berrington

Jason Barnett

Sean Baker

Tom Forrister

James Lailey

Fisayo Akinade

Kirsty Oswald

Finn Monteath

Tom Taylor

Sasha Yevtushenko

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Tsar: Boris Godunov: Ghosts

Boris Godunov: Ghosts

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Tsar, Boris Godunov: Ghosts

Shaun Dooley is Boris Godunov in Mike Walker's epic chronicle of the Tsars.

Mike Walker's epic chronicle of the Russian Tsars looks at the Time of Troubles and the reign of Boris Godunov. With Shaun Dooley.

By Mike Walker

"Petty thieves hang, great ones escape." Or so goes the Russian saying.

Did Boris Godunov have Ivan the Terrible's son killed in order to steal the throne? And what did he do when the murdered boy came back from the dead - leading an army to steal it all back? Mike Walker's epic chronicle of the Russian Tsars surveys the Time of Troubles, a period that saw the crown change hands 5 times in just 22 years.

Boris Godunov . . . . . Shaun Dooley
Maria Nagaya . . . . . Elizabeth Berrington
Feodor Romanov . . . . . Jason Barnett
Vasily Shuisky . . . . . Sean Baker
Feodor I . . . . . Tom Forrister
Jerome Horsey . . . . . James Lailey
Petya . . . . . Fisayo Akinade
Marta . . . . . Kirsty Oswald
Dmitri Ivanovich . . . . . Finn Monteath
Andrei . . . . . Tom Taylor

Director: Sasha Yevtushenko

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