![]() ![]() Read more ©2007 Simon Sebag Montefiore (P)2019 Random House Audio. It is a galvanizing portrait: razor-sharp, sensitive, and unforgiving. ![]() Orion Audio invited him to read Stalin because of his magnificent audiobook reading of George Orwell's 1984. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar gives an unprecedented understanding of Stalin’s dictatorship and, as well, a Stalin as human and complicated as he is brutal. But he has never forgotten his stage origins, where again his range is unusually wide: he has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company, yet plays pantomime most years. ranging from comedy to serious drama, include A Family at War, Black Beauty, The Liver Birds, Dickens of London and The Merchant of Venice. Before 'Midsomer Murders' he was best known for his role as Sergeant Jim Bergerac, in the long-running television series Bergerac. ![]() He was there spotted by an agent who arranged for him to work at the Royal Court theatre - though that did not stop him teaching in London for a while. He studied philosophy and history at Southampton University where he also acted in drama society productions. John Nettles was born in St Austell, Cornwall. ![]() Not oinly ministers such as Molotov or secret service chiefs such as Beria, but men and women whose loyalty he trusted only until the next purge. Simon Sebag Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great's lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning that sustained Stalin. There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. ![]()
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