Anna Karenina

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Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina: 2. The Affair

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

2. The Affair

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, 2. The Affair

Anna's affair with young officer Vronsky has begun but her husband will not acknowledge it

Anna's affair with young officer Vronsky has begun, but her pompous husband will not acknowledge it. Stars Teresa Gallagher.

Bored high society wife Anna has embarked on a love affair with young officer Vronsky.   

But her pompous husband will not acknowledge it   

Starring Teresa Gallagher, Toby Stephens and Nicholas Farrell. 

Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel dramatised  by Ed Thomason.

Anna Karenina .... Teresa Gallagher
Alexis Vronsky .... Toby Stephens
Alexis Alexandrovich Karenin .... Nicholas Farrell
Serezha .... George Allonby
Mikhail Slyudin/Gardener .... Hugh Dickson
Lydia Ivanovna .... Carolyn Jones
Betsy .... Janet Maw
Peter .... Gerard McDermott
Alexander Vronsky .... Alex Lowe
Orderly/Mishkin/Coachman .... Robert Harper
Annushka .... Alison Pettitt
Stremov/Driver/Porter .... Ioan Meredith
Yashvin/1st officer .... Chris Pavlo
Ivan Serpukhovsky .... Chrisopher Scott

Translator: Louise Maude

Director: David Hitchinson

First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1997.

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Teresa Gallagher and Toby Stephens star in Tolstoy's love story set in 19th-century Russia

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