Celebrating Stoppard: In the Native State

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Tom Stoppard's In the Native State is part of Radio 4's Celebrating Stoppard collection. It's 1930, and a young English poet with a scandalous reputation is sitting for a portrait while in India for her health. Sixty years later, the portrait resurfaces, and with it come difficult questions about Indian history and the story behind the painting itself. Later reworked as Stoppard's stage play Indian Ink, this is the original 1991 production. Winner of a Giles Cooper Award, with a Sony Award for Best Performance for Felicity Kendal. And Dame Peggy Ashcroft, in her final performance. Mrs Swan ….. Peggy Ashcroft Flora Crewe ….. Felicity Kendal Nirad Das ….. Sam Dastor Anish Das ….. Lyndam Gregory Rajah ….. Saeed Jaffrey David Durance ….. Simon Treves Mr Pike ….. William Hootkins Coomaraswami ..... Renu Setna The Resident ….. Brett Usher Nazrul ….. Amerjit Deu Francis Swan ….. Mark Straker Nell ….. Emma Gregory Englishwoman/Reader ….. Auriol Smith Written by Tom Stoppard Directed by John Tydeman Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 21st April 1991