Ten Days That Shook The World

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Matthew Gravelle

Nicholas Murchie

Richard Nichols

Sion Pritchard

Simon Ludders

Tom Forrister

Philip Fox

Robin Brooks

Alison Hindell

John Reed

John Reed - Ten Days That Shook the World: 6. The Revolutionary Front

Ten Days That Shook the World

6. The Revolutionary Front

John Reed - Ten Days That Shook the World

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Reed visits the revolutionary frontline with the Bolshevik commander-in-chief.

Reed visits the revolutionary frontline with the Bolshevik commander-in-chief, who is less than organised. Stars Richard Laing.

Kerensky and the counter-revolutionary Cossacks are making gains and threatening Petrograd. 

Reed visits the Revolutionary frontline with the Bolshevik commander-in-chief - who seems less than organised.

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 
Comberg ..... Matthew Gravelle 
Colonel ..... Nicholas Murchie 
Dybenko ..... Richard Nichols 
Antonov ..... Sion Pritchard

With Simon Ludders, Tom Forrister and Philip Fox

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.

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

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