Redemption is a 1947 Australian radio play based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy.
[3] It was one of a series of radio plays Finch appeared in around this time adapted from Russian novels other being Such Men are Dangerous and Crime and Punishment.
[4] Reviewing a repeat in 1950 the Brisbane Sunday Mail said "It might just as well have been Donald Ducks' houseparty for all the conviction it carried.
The religious and legal conditions in 19th Century Russia made divorce even more tragic than if.
The central character, Fedya Protasov, is an idealist and cannot con form to conventional life.