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Grigorii Efimovich Rasputin - Almost the Truth

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Drama: Biographical

02/09/2007

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Grigorii Efimovich Rasputin - Almost the Truth

Wally K Daly's portrait of the mad monk and his evil influence on the Russian Royal family

Wally K Daly's dramatic portrait of 'the mad monk' and his evil influence on the Russian Royal family. Stars Robert Glenister.

Has history been unjust to Grigorii Efimovich Rasputin? 

Was he anything more than a "mad monk", unbridled lecher, and evil influence on the Russian royal family? 

Wally K Daly's epic drama stars Robert Glenister as Rasputin, Michael Cochrane as the Tsar, Jane Whittenshaw as the Tsarina, Geoffrey Whithead as the Adjudicator, Maurice Denham as Makari, Norman Bird as Theophenes, Denys Hawthorne as Hemogenes and Roger May as Iliodor. 

Director: Martin Jenkins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1996.

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