One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet gulag system.

He was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during the Second World War.

He is innocent, but is sentenced to ten years in a forced labour camp.

This is what happens during one day of his sentence.

Starring John Hollingworth.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's classic tale 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' was first published in 1962.

It was the first book to give a true insight into life in a 1950s Soviet labour camp - and was specifically mentioned in the presentation speech when Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Dramatised by Robin Brooks.

Ivan - John Hollingworth

Buinovsky - Nigel Cooke

Tsezar - Joseph Kloska

Alyosha - Joshua Akehurst

Tiurin - Nick Murchie

Pavlo - Pat Marlowe

Kolya - Christopher Buckley

Volkovoi - David John

Fetiukov - Sam Donnelly

The Narrator - Olivia Darnley

Director: Clive Brill

A Brill production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2019.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's classic tale depicting life in a 1950s Soviet labour camp.