The False Diaghilev

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In a hotel room on the Venetian Lido, Serge Diaghilev, creator and manager of the Ballet Russe, lies dying. Serge Lifar, his leading dancer, Boris Kochno, his secretary, and Misia Sert, a socialite and one of his oldest friends, are with him. Diaghilev .... Robert Stephens Misia Sert .... Barbara Leigh Hunt Boris Kochno .... Michael Maloney Serge Lifar .... Douglas Hodge Doctor/Priest .... Godfrey Kenton Alexandre Benois/Manager .... William Simons Filosov ..... Laurence Payne Rimsky-Korsakov/Otto Khan .... Alan Dudley Nijinsky/Kremnev .... Peter Craze Prince Lvov/Fokine .... Paul Gregory Grigoriev ..... Norman Bird Miassin ..... Richard Pearce Sokolova .... Polly James Director: Ian Cotterell First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1988.