Ten Days That Shook The World

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Richard Laing

Kelly Burke

Ewan Bailey

Matthew Gravelle

Nicholas Murchie

Richard Elfyn

Sion Pritchard

Alison Hindell

John Reed

Robin Brooks

John Reed - Ten Days That Shook the World: 3. The Winter Palace

Ten Days That Shook the World

3. The Winter Palace

John Reed - Ten Days That Shook the World

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John Reed's classic eye-witness account of the Russian Revolution in October 1917.

Reed and Bryant are caught up with alarmed government troops defending the Winter Palace. Stars Richard Laing and Kelly Burke.

Reed and Bryant blag their way in to the Winter Palace and meet the frightened government troops defending the building. 

As gunfire starts in the street, the Palace falls, surprisingly easily. to the victorious revolutionaries. 

The journalists find themselves caught in a dangerous encounter.

John Reed's classic eye-witness account of the Russian Revolution in October 1917.

Stars Richard Laing and Kelly Burke.

Dramatised by Robin Brooks

John Reed .... Richard Laing 
Louise Bryant .... Kelly Burke 
Kerensky .... Ewan Bailey 
Comberg .... Matthew Gravelle 
Driver .... Nicholas Murchie 
Commissar .... Richard Elfyn 
Robert .... Sion Pritchard

Director: Alison Hindell 

A BBC Cymru/Wales production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2017.

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John Reed's classic eye-witness account of the Russian Revolution in October 1917. Dramatised by Robin Brooks.

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