28 min listen
BBC World Service FOOC
ratings:
Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Dec 29, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Prisoners of Norilsk - a city frozen in time
"A history of Soviet failure written in crumbling cement; a monument to a system which simply ran out of steam".
Norilsk, 1994
Owen Bennett Jones introduces a despatch from Kevin Connolly in the city of Norilsk in the Arctic Circle. He met people who had suffered and survived there for decades under the USSR - and seemed likely to spend the rest of their lives in this remote outpost.
"A history of Soviet failure written in crumbling cement; a monument to a system which simply ran out of steam".
Norilsk, 1994
Owen Bennett Jones introduces a despatch from Kevin Connolly in the city of Norilsk in the Arctic Circle. He met people who had suffered and survived there for decades under the USSR - and seemed likely to spend the rest of their lives in this remote outpost.
Released:
Dec 29, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
BBC Radio 4: Who says the Germans don't have a sense of humour? Steve Evans is in the east of the... by From Our Own Correspondent