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, 1981The 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, 2010The 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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