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Pushkin House Podcast

Pushkin House Podcast


Pushkin House Podcast

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Length:
39 episodes
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Description

From the heart of Bloomsbury, London, a podcast brought to you by the UK's oldest independent Russian cultural centre. We talk art, culture and ideas.
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Episodes1 - 10 of 39 episodes

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All About the Russian Banya

What is a banya? What do Russians do when they go to the steam-room, and what are those...

37 minutes
Feb 02, 2021

Protesting For Navalny: Three insider perspectives

Ada Wordsworth speaks to Maria Kuznetsova, Alina Z, and Alina D, three young Muscovites...

37 minutes
Jan 28, 2021

Hope and Community for LGBT+ Russians

Ada Wordsworth speaks to Alexander and Suzy, two young Russians. They recount their exp...

45 minutes
Jan 13, 2021

The Leviathan Awakes

Sergei Medvedev on the resurrection and future of the Russian authoritarian stateHow ha...

28 minutes
Nov 09, 2020

All About Russian Icons: a 1969 lecture by John Stuart

In the latest of our archive recordings to be unearthed, we have here a 1969 lecture fr...

87 minutes
Jul 02, 2020

Gogol and the Grotesque: Victor Erlich on the great surrealist

“The most essential horrors revealed by Gogol are not of Russia, but of the soul...”Nik...

95 minutes
May 21, 2020

The Religion of the Russian People

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, in archive footage from 1961, enlightens the salon at ...

53 minutes
Apr 23, 2020

Food From Beyond the North Wind

Darra Goldstein speaks about her new cookbook to Pushkin House’s director Clem CecilSpe...

32 minutes
Apr 13, 2020

Benjamin Leigh Smith, Britain's Forgotten Arctic Explorer

Charlotte Moore recounts the stranger-than-fiction tale of her great-great-great-uncleB...

91 minutes
Apr 08, 2020

Which Version of War and Peace Should I Read?

Robert Chandler and Boris Dralyuk discuss the best translations of Russian literatureBy...

85 minutes
Apr 01, 2020