Woman's Hour Drama - About Love - Rothschild's Violin

In celebration of the 150th 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 story of regret about a coffin maker whose wife of 50 years is taken seriously ill. Chekhov ...... Michael Pennington Maxim Nikolayevich ...... Nicholas Boulton Rothschild ...... Jasper Britton Yakov ...... Philip Voss Marfa ...... Zoe Waites Directed by Philip Franks and Jane Morgan. A Unique production for BBC Radio 4.