The Mushroom Picker

1993 - 1993

Episode 1

3rd February 1993

Episode 1

Swept off her feet by three nights of passion on her first trip to Moscow, Clea, an impressionable English girl, begins a love affair with Russia, and with Kostya. But her Soviet dream becomes a nightmare, and she ends up in a bizarre love triangle.

Episode 2

10th February 1993

Episode 2

Clea brings her Russian husband home to London. This suits his mistress Margot, who is Clea's best friend. But Kostya is not ready to settle down in suburbia, and is he really picking mushrooms when he goes out all night?

Episode 3

17th February 1993

Episode 3

Anthony and Margot are coming to lunch on their way to demonstrate at a nuclear base... But Kostya and Clea have divided their kitchen as she becomes sure he is a cannibal. And the Polish delicatessen owner Tadeus follows them all, hoping to find the best wild mushroom grounds in England.

Top Cast

Nigel Terry•Lynsey Baxter•Lesley Manville

Director

Andy Wilson

The story of an outlandish love affair between an impressionable English woman and a Soviet man obsessed with food.

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Nigel Terry Image

Nigel Terry

Kostya

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Lynsey Baxter

Clea

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Lesley Manville

Margot

Simon Russell Beale Image

Simon Russell Beale

Anthony

Full Crew

Estelle Daniel

Producer

Andy Wilson

Director

Liane Aukin

Adaptation

Zinovy Zinik

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