One Day in the Life of Ivan...

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's classic tale depicting life in a 1950s Soviet labour camp.

4 Extra Debut. Innocent Ivan faces ten years in a Soviet forced labour camp accused of spying in the Second World War. Stars John Hollingworth.

Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet gulag system. 

He was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during the Second World War.

He is innocent, but is sentenced to ten years in a forced labour camp. 

This is what happens during one day of his sentence.

Starring John Hollingworth.  

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's classic tale 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' was first published in 1962.

It was the first book to give a true insight into life in a 1950s Soviet labour camp - and was specifically mentioned in the presentation speech when Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Dramatised by Robin Brooks.  

Ivan ...... John Hollingworth
Buinovsky ...... Nigel Cooke 
Tsezar ...... Joseph Kloska 
Alyosha ...... Joshua Akehurst 
Tiurin ...... Nick Murchie
Pavlo ...... Pat Marlowe
Kolya ...... Christopher Buckley 
Volkovoi ...... David John
Fetiukov ...... Sam Donnelly
The Narrator ...... Olivia Darnley

Director: Clive Brill

A Brill production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2019.

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