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BBC Radio 3Sun 7 Feb 2010 20:00 BBC Radio 3
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BBC Radio 3Sun 21 Nov 2010 20:00 BBC Radio 3
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Shakespeare Dramas
Series of three new productions of Shakespeare plays
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Lucy Duran meets London's Colombian community as part of the World Routes Academy.
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
by Garry Lyons.
Years before he found fame with Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome was swept up in the dramatic events of the Russian Revolution, living a dangerous double life as a journalist and agent for both the Bolsheviks and the Foreign Office. War, revolution, espionage and romance feature in this biographical portrait of one of our best-loved children's authors.
Arthur Ransome ..... Rory Kinnear
Evgenia Shelepina ..... Michelle Dockery
Ivy ..... Katie Collier
Foreign Office Minister, Lenin ..... Gordon Mounsey
Lockhart, Trotsky ..... Mark Chatterton
Russian Officer, Soldier ..... Joe Hughes
Tabitha ..... Emily Herbert
Young Arthur ..... George Herbert
Soldier ..... Christopher Anderton
Soldier ..... Christopher Arley
Directed and produced by Melanie Harris.
Sun 21 Nov 2010 20:00 BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3Sun 7 Feb 2010 20:00 BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3Sun 21 Nov 2010 20:00 BBC Radio 3
Series of three new productions of Shakespeare plays
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