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1. The Search for Love

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Set on the eve of the Crimean war, an upper-class Russian woman falls for a Bulgarian revolutionary. Stars Amanda Root.

Ivan Turgenev's romantic novella, set on the eve of the Crimean war.

Who will Elena fall in love with?

The artist, Shubin or the philosopher Bersyenev?

Then she meets a real hero, Insarov.

Starring Amanda Root and Philip Franks.

Dramatised in two parts by Michael Crompton.

Elena .... Amanda Root
Insarov .... Philip Franks
Pavel Shubin .... John Lloyd Fillingham
Andrei Bersyenev .... Mark Chatterton
Anna .... Jane Cox
Nikolai .... Russell Dixon
Uvar .... Alan Partington
Zoya ... Saskia Downes
Fedushka ... Keith Clifford
German bully... Martin Oldfield

With:

John Griffin
Stephen Tomlin

Director: Michael Fox

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1993.

1 hour

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Tue 12 Dec 202300:00
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