The Poor Gentleman

Writer: Ivan Turgenev
Translated by Ariadne Nicolaeff
Adapted for radio and Directed by Brian Miller

First Broadcast: Fri 20th Mar 1981
BBC Radio 4

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  Kuzovkin . . . . . . . . . . . . Frank Finlay
  Olga Petrovna . . . . . . . . . . . . Morag Hood
  Pavel Nikolaich . . . . . . . . . . . . Colin Baker
  Flegont Aleksandrych . . . . . . . . . . . . Neil Stacy
  Ivan Kuzmich Tropachev . . . . . . . . . . . . John Hartoch
  
  

  Written a few years before A Month in the Country, this little-known play is an emotional comedy about an elderly man's devotion to a daughter he must never recognise publicly as his own.
  
  Frank would work later that year with Morag Hood on stage in Amadeus (1981) in which he played Antonio Salieri, Richard O'Callaghan played Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Morag played Constanze Weber.
  
  

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