BBC R3 - Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'The Gambler'
Adapted by Glyn Maxwell
Directed by Guy Retallack
Broadcast June 14, 2009
Coded from a digital source at 128/44.1
Alexei is in love with Polina and gambling.
And he's not very good with either.
Written to fulfil a contract after Dostoevsky
had lost all of his money in gaming houses.
Reveals a light-hearted side to the man.
Cast
Alexei Ivanovich - Sam Crane
General Zagorski - Nicholas Le Prevost
Polina Alexandrovna - Siobhan Hewlett
Blanche De Cominges - Charlotte Randall
Granny - Patricia Routledge
De Grieux - David Westhead
Astley - Robert Portal