THE BLACK MONK
[SHORT-STORY]
Story by Anton Chekhov…
STORY TIME—“FIVE SHORT STORIES BYANTON CHEKHOV” (RADIO 4,
LONDON—BBC)
[Thursday—4:45-5:00 PM]
July 30, 1981 “The Black Monk”
[RADIO TIMES: “…A sinister figure haunts the mind of the scholar
Kovrin…”]
SCRIPT: Jessie Coulson (translator).
PERSONNEL: Simon Cadell (reader).
WOMEN’S HOUR DRAMA—“ABOUT LOVE” (RADIO 4, LONDON—BBC)
[Tuesday—10:45-11:00 PM]
January 26, 2010 “The Black Monk”
[BBC RADIO 4: “…In celebration of the 150tth anniversary of Anton
Chekhov’s birth, Michael Pennington plays the great Russian writer
presenting a series of his short stories on the subject of marriage,
dramatised by Martyn Wade… A haunting story of love, obsession and
the supernatural… A Unique production for BBC Radio 4…”]
SCRIPT: Martyn Wade.
PERSONNEL: Philip Franks (director), Jane Morgan (director).
CAST: Nicholas Boulton (Kovrin), Jasper Britton (The Black Monk), Michael
Pennington (Chekhov), Philip Voss (Yegor), Zoe Waites (Tanya).
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