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Kenneth MacMillan's Anastasia dances again

Kenneth MacMillan's ballet Anastasia is performed again by the Royal Ballet after 18 years

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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This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project