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World Service,03 May 1996,28 mins

Kenneth MacMillan's Anastasia dances again

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Kenneth MacMillan's ballet Anastasia, about Tsar Nicholas II's youngest daughter and the 1917 Russian Revolution, is being performed again by the Royal Ballet in London after 18 years; here his widow and performers discuss working on the revival. Plus, how Holbein's painting The Ambassadors has been restored; Victor Spinetti on Restoration comedy and playing Lord Foppington in John Vanburgh's The Relapse.

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