Devised & performed by Michael
Pennington
BBC Radio
Production
Information
BBC Radio, 22nd
August 1986
“Chekhov regarded
literature as his mistress and medicine as his wife, and in 1889 he decided to
be faithful to his wife and to set off across Siberia to the penal colony of
Sakhalin, so that he could observe the conditions there.
The story is told in
Chekhov’s own words, taken from conversations, letters and articles.”
Director Jane Morgan