The Possessed

First broadcast 20060507.

By Lou Stein, from the book by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

A group of dissidents and self-proclaimed revolutionaries are intent on causing chaos in a small town in 1870s Russia - spurred on by a demonic and manipulative ringleader.

Govorov....John Sessions

Varvara Petrovna....Susannah York

Peter Verhovensky....Paul McGann

Nikolai Stavrogin....Benedict Cumberbatch

Liza/Marya....Anne-Marie Duff

Virginsky/Kirillov....Dexter Fletcher

Liputin/Stepan....Roger Lloyd Pack

Shatov....Brian Bovell

English translation by Tatiana Bazhenova.

Original music by Deirdre Gribbin and produced by Lou Stein.