WOMAN'S HOUR SERIAL
PROGRAMME INFO Weekdays, 10:45, rpt 19:45. Serialisations on Woman's Hour FEATURING Tom Goodman-Hill plays George, Dorothea's husband		Tara Fitzgerald plays Dorothea. LAUGHTER IN LENINGRAD by Dorothea Eltenton, directed by Pam Fraser Solomon and dramatised by Lisa Evans. Monday to Friday, 3 June to 7 June 2002. Dorothea Eltenton is an English middleclass, left-wing thinker. When her husband is offered a job in Leningrad, the family, unperturbed by Russia's bad press in the West, does not hesitate to leave comfort and security for a journey across Europe where they witness the results of revolution, first hand. Laughter In Leningrad opens in 1933 with Dorothea and her two young children sailing to the Soviet Union to join her scientist husband, George. Theirs is a strong marriage with a shared idealistic vision of their adopted country. Once established in Leningrad, Dorothea offers us layers of anecdotes about her home, incessant cockroach infestations, her new friends, politics and the first ever election, romance, holidays in the Crimea, accidents and illness, and the birth of their third child. CAST: Dolly (Dorothea) - Tara Fitzgerald George - Tom Goodman-Hill Mucya - Larissa Kouznetsova Shura - Ivan Marevich Valya - Cleo Sylvestre Anoushka - Patricia Perry Lil - Gemma Saunders Mike - Maxwell Harris-Tharp Yuri - Pavel Rimburg