About
Russia's Space Race success is mainly due to a brilliant rocket scientist, Kuprin. But a journalist and a politician in London remember him as a fervent Anglophile who had to leave Britain under duress. Can he be persuaded to return?.
Studio
BBC, BBC Television (GB)
Cast
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Eric Portman
Kuprin
J
John Gregson
Smith
M
Marius Goring
Laye-Parker
M
Martita Hunt
Madame Kuprin
N
Natasha Parry
Vera
M
Mervyn Johns
Holloway
J
John Phillips
Trifonov
N
Noel Johnson
Lowther
H
Heather Chasen
Isabel
M
Michael Barrington
Rowson
W
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
Radio Commentator (voice)
E
Edward Burnham
Sir Geraint Lloyd
J
John Ruddock
Professor Ridley
I
Irene Sutcliffe
Miss Probert
P
Pauline Winter
Miss Lipscomb
A
Alexis Chesnakov
Leonidov
A
Alfred Hoffman
Hotel Clerk
J
John Bennett
Zagornetz
D
Dorothea Phillips
Madame Lebedev
G
Gabriel Toyne
Lebedev