title: Short story, 'Chekhov's Telescope'
abstract: This story was one of three stories by Alison MacLeod commissioned as a suite of Chekhov-inspired stories by BBC Radio 4. 
  
  All three were later collected in Alison MacLeod's short fiction collection ALL THE BELOVED GHOSTS (2017):
  http://eprints.chi.ac.uk/2608/
  
  BBC Programme Notes:
  Chekhov's Telescope
  Series Title: Imagining Chekhov
  
  A set of three stories, commissioned specially for Radio 4. Alison MacLeod explores the life and work of one of the finest short story writers of them all