BBC R4 - Lydia Chukovskaya's 'Going Under'

Adapted by Ken Whitmore from Peter Weston's translation

Broadcast in the 'Monday Play' series

This recording made from a Saturday Playhouse broadcast

Directed by Martin Jenkins

Broadcast July 6, 1992

Coded from tape at 128/44.1



1949. Winter. Russo-Finland. Rest Home.



Recuperating writer works in secret on a book

about the 1937 purges. Friends she's made at

the home reveal other aspects of the terror, and

tell stories of the 'Geat Patriotic War'.



Drawn from a novel banned in Russia until Glasnost.



Cast

Lyudmila Pavlovna - Tessa Worsley

Nina Sergeyevna - Annette Crosby

Nikolai Bilibin - Graham Crowden

Pyotr Klokov - Brett Usher

Sergei Sablin - John Webb

Sonya - Melanie Hudson

Official - John Church

Veksler - Cyril Shaps

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Chukovskaya



https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lydia-chukovskaya-1341659.html