Oblomov byIvan Goncharov
Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt
Music by Helen Crayford and Olivia Robinson
Produced by Claire Grove
BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial - August 13 & 14, 2005
2 x 60mins episodes
Plot[]
Gentle, intelligent Oblomov completely fails to deal with life.
He lives in a flat in St Petersburg.
He is always about to go and sort out his estate but he rarely gets out of bed.
Never doing today what he can put off until tomorrow, Oblomov is a tragic-comic hero for a couch potato generation.
Cast[]
- Agafya..........Fiona Clarke
- Doctor..........Clive Swift
- Nicolai.........Harry Myers
- Oblomov........Toby Jones
- Olga...........Claire Skinner
- Olgas Aunt.....Richenda Carey
- Pianist........Helen Crayford
- Singer.........Olivia Robinson
- Stoltz.........Nicholas Boulton
- Tarantyev......Gerard McDermott
- Zahar..........Trevor Peacock