Celebrating Stoppard: Rock ‘n’ Roll

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Tom Stoppard's play about loyalty, compromise, love and music is on Radio 4 for the first time as part of the Celebrating Stoppard collection. In 1968, Czech student Jan returns home "to protect rock 'n' roll" from the Soviet tanks crushing the Prague Spring. Max, a Communist don in Cambridge, watches his ideology collapse until the Velvet revolution of 1990 allows student and master to meet again. The politics and music have changed but have the people also? Max ..... Bill Paterson Jan ..... Daniel Evans Eleanor ..... Penny Downie Esme ..... Amanda Root Ferdinand ..... Bertie Carvel Young Esme ..... Jaimi Barbakoff Alice ..... Jasmine Hyde Nigel ..... Ron Cook Lenka ..... Britta Gartner Stephen ..... Joseph Kloska Milan ..... John Dougall Candida ..... Liza Sadovy Gillian ..... Jasmine Callan Directed by Alison Hindell