The Nutcracker Christmas

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A BBC Radio Christmas drama

It's Christmas eve in Moscow. A family is all set to go out to see the Bolshoi Ballet dance THE NUTCRACKER.

All except Natalia. She's in trouble for cutting characters out of her picture books, and her punishment is that she must stay behind at home with Grandpa Igor.

But Natalia finds that the story of the Nutcracker CAN be brought to life at home...with a little help from some abandoned characters and her own imagination...

Grandpa Igor ... Bernard Hepton
Natalia ... Siriol Jenkins
Anna ... Stella Gonet
Young Igor ... Ashley Bird
Clara ... Deborah Berlin
Boris ... Patrick Brennan
Dmitri ... Richard Pearce
Victoria ... Melanie Walters
Grigori ... Richard Tate
Drosselmeyer ... Ivor Roberts
The Mouse King ... David Bannerman

Tchaikovsky's music realized by Matthew Bailey & Stewart Lucas

Directed by Alison Hindell

Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 25 December 1995

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