Imagining Chekhov

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Imagining Chekhov: Chekhov's Telescope by Alison MacLeod

Chekhov's Telescope by Alison MacLeod

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Chekhov and Olga Knipper holiday in Yalta, unaware that a reporter is stalking them.

Chekhov and his lover take a holiday in Yalta, unaware that a news reporter is stalking their every move. Read by Peter Firth.

A set of three stories, commissioned specially for Radio 4. Alison MacLeod explores the life and work of one of the finest short story writers of them all - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.
 
In this tale,  Chekhov and his lover - the actress Olga Knipper - take a holiday in Yalta, unaware that a news reporter is stalking their every move.
 
A note on the letters between Chekhov and Olga:
These are fictional composites of the writer’s own words and Chekhov’s actual letters from the volume Dear Writer, Dear Actress: The Love Letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper, translated by Jean Benedetti.
 
Reader: Peter Firth
Producer: Jeremy Osborne
 
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in February 2016.

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