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The Diary of a Madman

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A civil servant's dull existence is transformed when he overhears two dogs talking. Stars Griff Rhys Jones. From 2002.

Poprishkin is a long serving clerk in the St Petersburg civil service.

His life is drab and unspectacular but everything changes one day when he overhears two dogs talking.

Concluding the series of comic plays by Jim Poyser set in 19th-century Russia and based on the absurd.

Based on a short story by Nikolai Gogol

The Madman ....... Griff Rhys Jones
Lisaveta ....... Ann Rye
Boris ....... David Fleeshman
Medji ....... Mark Chatterton
Lyapkin ....... Rob Pickavance
Mavra ....... Emma Clarke

Producer Susan Roberts

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2002.

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