Night Visit: a radio play by Jean Binnie, dramatising IB’s November 1945 all-night visit to the poet Anna Akhmatova in Leningrad.

• Sarah Badel plays Akhmatova, and Robert Glenister IB.
• First transmission: 27/06/00 BBC Radio 4
• Repeat: 2.15 pm 27/11/02 BBC Radio 4
• Duration: 45 minutes
• Series: Afternoon Play
• Director: Martin Jenkins
• Transcript: made by Esther Johnson for Henry Hardy