The Royal Shakespeare Company production with John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ian Holm, plus the 1981 BBC production with Bill Paterson and Timothy Spall, directed by Richard Eyre.

Dame Judi Dench is one of the most celebrated stars of stage and screen. She is the winner of an Academy Award®, two Golden Globes, an unprecedented seven Olivier Awards, and numerous BAFTAs.

In 1961, however, she was a young actress just making a name for herself when she was cast by the Royal Shakespeare Company as the privileged daughter Anya in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, alongside theatre legends Sir John Gielgud, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Dame Dorothy Tutin and Sir Ian Holm. The production was broadcast by the BBC in 1962 but has never before been seen in North America. In 1981, the director Sir Richard Eyre - this time - cast Dame Judi Dench as Anya's weak but charismatic mother, Madame Ranevsky in The Cherry Orchard, a performance which earned her a BAFTA® Award for best actress. This two-disc set presents both productions along with a conversation between Sir Richard Eyre and Judi Dench filmed in 2002.