Yet Another Treat for Russophiles


To add to the list of programmes posted earlier, Start the Week on BBC R4 on Monday 11 January is ‘Russia: Tsars to Putin’. Guest speakers include Simon Seebag Montefiore and Amanda Vickery. Interestingly, Vickery talks a little about the moral dilemma she faced in interviewing some of the survivors of the traumatic events of the Leningrad siege for a programme that is essentially a source of entertainment for its audience.

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Before it disappears from iPlayer, catch Start the Week: Tsars to Putin here.

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