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Classic Serial: Dostoyevsky - The Russian Gambler

Ed Stoppard

Matthew Marsh

Dolya Gavanski

Isabella Blake Thomas

Graham Seed

Orlando Seale

Lucy May Barker

George Lasha

Irina Karatcheva

Jay Taylor

Alana Ramsey

Timothy Walker

John Dryden

Classic Serial: Dostoyevsky - The Russian Gambler: Episode 1

Episode 1

Dostoyevsky - The Russian Gambler

BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, Dostoyevsky - The Russian Gambler, Episode 1

Ed Stoppard plays an obsessive pianist in a modern-day take on Dostoevsky's classic.

A brilliant pianist is sucked into a world of obsession when tutoring a wealthy Russian oligarch's daughter. Stars Ed Stoppard, Matthew Marsh, Dolya Gavanski, Isabella Blake Thomas.

A brilliant, penniless, pianist gets a job as tutor to the daughter of a wealthy Russian oligarch living in London and is sucked into a world of obsession and chance.

A modern-day take on Dostoevsky's The Gambler, by writer/actor Dolya Gavanski, with Ed Stoppard, Matthew Marsh and Graham Seed.

The Russian Gambler is Dolya Gavanski's first drama for Radio 4. As an actor she worked with Steve Coogan and Michael Winterbottom on The Trip and with Angelina Jolie in the Bosnian film In the Land of Milk and Honey. Her radio work includes The Mumbai Chuzzlewits, The Bid and UTZ for Radio 4 and Massistonia on Radio 3.

Casting: Toby Whale,
Script Editor: Mike Walker,
Sound Design: Steve Bond.

Original music composed by Sacha Puttnam.
All music performed by Sacha Puttnam.

Directed and Produced by John Dryden
A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4.

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The Russian Gambler

Dolya Gavanski's lively modern-day take on Dostoevsky's The Gambler

Dolya Gavanski's lively modern-day take on Dostoevsky's The Gambler. Brilliant penniless pianist Alexei is seduced by the high-stakes world of a Russian oligarch

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