BBC R3 - Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'The Possessed'
Adapted by Lou Stein
Based on a translation by Tatiana Bazhenova
Music by Deirdre Gribbin
Produced by Lou Stein.
Broadcast May 7, 2006
Coded from tape at 128/44.l

Dostoevsky's parable for the chaos amongst contemporary (1870s)
movements pressing for reform of Russia's imperial/autocratatic
system, played out by a disparate bunch of regional radicals and
a driven manipulative leader seeking to unite them behind him via
a brutal killing.

It all ends in tears. Just like it did in real life.

Cast
Govorov - John Sessions
Varvara Petrovna - Susannah York
Peter Verhovensky - Paul McGann
Nikolai Stavrogin - Benedict Cumberbatch
Liza/Marya - Anne-Marie Duff
Virginsky/Kirillov - Dexter Fletcher
Liputin/Stepan - Roger Lloyd Pack
Shatov - Brian Bovell
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