Radio Open Source: Reading Chekhov
Series produced by Open Source

“Reading Chekhov” is the name of this game – a podcast experiment with, by all accounts, the greatest short-story writer of them all, the medical doctor who was also the “Cherry Orchard” playwright, Anton Chekhov.
“Reading Chekhov” is the name of this game – a podcast experiment and safe indoor sport with, by all accounts, the greatest short-story writer of them all, the medical doctor who was also the “Cherry Orchard” playwright, Anton Chekhov.Why? Because Chekhov (1860 – 1904) is ageless and everywhere – “the voice of twilight Russia,” it’s been said, and one of the great pre-revolutionary visionaries – but also a literary influence on Joyce and all the moderns and still a contemporary, almost. For many readers today he has the rare effect his friend Maxim Gorky observed. In Chekhov’s presence, Gorky said, “every one involuntarily felt in himself a desire to be simpler, more truthful, more one’s self.” The several actors in our group keep discovering, and demonstrating, that Chekhov’s... Show full description
5 Pieces
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 01:21:57
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 20:08
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 52:19
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 26:29
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 41:36
- Purchases: 1