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Maverick Officials and Blind Dissidents in China's Transition Year

Title: Maverick Officials and Blind Dissidents in China's Transition Year
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Voice of Russia's James Reinl hosts a debate on China's leadership change under an opaque political system, touching upon the cases of the disgraced official Bo Xilai and the blind rights activist Chen Guangcheng. With a panel of guests including: Martin Jacques, author of 'When China Rules the World: the Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World'; Marta Cooper, Journalist and editorial assistant at Index on Censorship; Jonas Parello-Plesner, Senior Policy Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations, and joining us on the phone Andrew Leung, an International and Independent China Specialist.

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Title: Are wind farms the future?
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Voice of Russia's Juliet Spare hosts a debate on the sustainability of wind farms following new research that's come out in Texas. With a panel of guests including: Benny Peiser, Director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation; Adam Bell, from Renewable UK; Derek Clark MEP of the UK Independence Party, and Dr Doug Greenwell -- Reader in Flight Dynamics at City University in London.

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Title: French Presidential Elections
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Voice of Russia's James Reinl hosts a debate on the French Presidential Elections with a panel of guests including: John Gaffney, Professor of Politics & Co-Director of the Aston Centre for Europe; Dr.Rainbow Murray, Reader in Politics at Queen Mary University of London; Nick Hewlett, Author and Professor at Warwick University, and John Laughland -- Director of Studies at the Institute of Democracy and Corporation in Paris.

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Title: Russians in London - Alex Nikiforov
Runtime: 14:13
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: In the latest in a series of interviews with Russians living in London and the UK, Alice Lagnado at Voice of Russia radio in London talked to Alex Nikiforov. Alex came to Britain as a management consultant before changing profession and becoming a dance teacher. Alex teaches the 5Rhythms® dance method, and you can find out more about him and his classes at www.freedom-dance.com

Title: Austerity measures in the EU
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Voice of Russia's Vivienne Nunis hosts a discussion on austerity measures in the EU with a panel of guests including Stephen Haseler of the Global Policy Institute,
Mark Littlewood from the Institute of Economic Affairs, Kimberley Trewhitt, a researcher at the independent think tank Reform and Professor Peter Morici of the State University of New York.

Title: Curtain Up
Runtime: 14:45
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Curtain Up is a new show about Russian culture in London and the UK. It's brought to you by Voice of Russia's London radio station, and hosted by Alice Lagnado and Pushkin House director Julian Gallant. In our first edition, we talked about Russian Victory Day, ballet on ice, Stravinsky on Trafalgar Square, and more. Our guests were the choral ensemble Blagovest [pictured], who sang a Russian folk song for us in the studio. We hope you enjoy the show, and welcome feedback.

Title: Victory Day - in London
Runtime: 4:47
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Russians marked Victory Day in Britain on Wednesday. London saw the biggest celebration, with hundreds of Russian and Britons gathering at the Soviet War Memorial in Lambeth, including surviving veterans of the Second World War. Alice Lagnado went to meet them.

Young British dancer Tala Lee-Turton gains place at Bolshoi ballet school

Title: Young British dancer Tala Lee-Turton gains place at Bolshoi ballet school
Runtime: 6:43
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: A 16-year-old girl from Barnsley in Yorkshire has gained a place at the Bolshoi Theatre's ballet academy. Tala Lee-Turton will spend a year studying in Moscow. If she shows promise, she will stay for a comprehensive training program. Only eight British dancers have joined the academy in its 239-year history. Alice Lagnado talked to Tala about her achievement, and then to Luke Jennings, the Observer's dance critic, about the significance of being accepted into the Bolshoi's prestigious school.
Without financial support, Tala may not be able to realise her dream. Tala's family have now started a local sponsorship campaign to raise at least 75 per cent of the required funds. The school fees alone are €13,000 per year and there will also be air fares and health insurance cover. If you would like to contribute, please visit www.gofundme.com/talaatthebolshoi

The situation in Bahrain - is the Gulf monarchy serious about political reforms?

Title: The situation in Bahrain - is the Gulf monarchy serious about political reforms?
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: VOR London's James Reinl hosts a debate on the jailed Bahraini hunger-striker, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, and asks whether the Gulf monarchy is serious about political reforms. He was joined by the Bahraini government spokesman, Fahad al-Binali, Rodney Shakespeare, chairman of the Committee against Torture in Bahrain, Mike Diboll, the democracy campaigner, Ben Harris-Quinney, chairman of the Conservative think tank, The Bow Group , and Patrick Henningsen, from the alternative news website Infowars.

Osama bin Laden Death Anniversary - what has become of Al Qaeda?

Title: Osama bin Laden Death Anniversary - what has become of Al Qaeda?
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: VOR London's James Reinl hosts a debate on the one-year anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden and asks whether Al Qaeda is a spent force. He was joined by Christina Hellmich, author of "Al-Qaeda. From Global Network to Local Franchise", Tina Soria, from the Royal United Services Institute, Peter Eyre, a commentator on the Middle East, Lorenzo Vidino, author of "Al Qaeda in Europe: The New Battleground of International Jihad", and Robert Crowley, from the security assessment firm, the Risk Advisory Group.

Conversation with 'Bridge of Spies' author Giles Whittell - U2 Spy Plane incident 1960

Title: Conversation with 'Bridge of Spies' author Giles Whittell - U2 Spy Plane incident 1960
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Voice of Russia's Tim Ecott in conversation with Giles Whittell, author of 'Bridge of Spies', discussing the U2 spy plane incident in May 1960 and the consequences for US-Russia relations.

Wooden Churches -- Travelling in the Russian North

Title: Wooden Churches -- Travelling in the Russian North
Runtime: 15:23
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Thousands of wooden churches have been built in Russia over the centuries. Many have been destroyed, but large numbers are still standing. Richard Davies is a photographer who spent nine years documenting these churches. He and writer Matilda Moreton have produced a fascinating book called 'Wooden Churches -- Travelling in the Russian North.'
Here, Alice Lagnado interviews Richard about his book for Voice of Russia radio in London.

Internet pornography - how harmful is it and do we need greater internet security?

Title: Internet pornography - how harmful is it and do we need greater internet security?
Runtime: 28:28
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Voice of Russia's Daniel Cinna hosts a studio debate on the implications of pornography, both on children and attitudes towards sex and relationships. This comes after the UK government has been pushing for an 'opt-out' scenario to give parents greater control in filtering their children's internet access.

Sitting on the guest panel: Jim Killock - from the Open Rights group, Miranda Suit - founder and co-chairman of Safermedia UK, Julie Bindel - feminist activist and writer, and Anna 'Span' Arrowsmith - British pornographic film director.

Title: Should drugs be decriminalised?
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Voice of Russia's Polina Boiko hosts a studio discussion asking 'Should drugs be decriminalised?' after former heroin-addict and comedian Russell Brand told politicians that drug addiction should be treated as a health issue rather than a judicial matter.

The guest panel debate the question - they include: Kathy Gyngell -- a research fellow from Centre for Policy Studies, Leo Barasi - from the UK Drug Policy commission, Niamh Eastwood- the Executive Director of Release, a campaign for the decriminalisation of drugs and from Russia Alexey Kalgashkin - Editor-in-chief of 'No-to-drugs' Web resource.

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Russian literature today - an interview with publisher Maxim Hodak

Title: Russian literature today - an interview with publisher Maxim Hodak
Runtime: 13:32
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Alice Lagnado of Voice of Russia radio in London interviews Maxim Hodak of the Glagoslav publishing house during the London Book Fair. Glagoslav publishes books in English translation by Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian authors. You can find out more at http://www.glagoslav.com

http://www.glagoslav.com/

Title: Making Russian food sexy
Runtime: 14:16
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: As part of a series of interviews with Russians living in London and the UK, Alice Lagnado of Voice of Russia radio in London interviews food writer Katrina Kollegaeva about why Russian food is sexy, fun and ... delicious! You can read Katrina's blog at www.gastronomicalme.com

Young women's writing from Russia - meet the new generation

Title: Young women's writing from Russia - meet the new generation
Runtime: 7:43
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Russia is nothing if not a land of writers. But the country which brought us Tolstoy, Chekhov and Dostoyevsky didn't stop producing talented writers at the end of the 1800s. In recent years Russian women writers have come to the fore, giving us such names as Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Tatiana Tolstaya, and Nina Sadur. Today there's a brand new generation of young women writers in their twenties and early thirties. Alice Lagnado interviewed three of them, Irina Bogatyreva, Anna Lavrinenko, and Anna Leonidova, together with Natalya Perova, who runs the publishing house GLAS, which is about to bring out a new collection of these writers' work in English called Still Waters Run Deep: Young Women's Writing from Russia. Please visit www.glas.msk.su to find out more about these and other writers published by GLAS. With thanks to Academia Rossica for the photograph, which shows, from left to right, the writers Yaroslava Pulinovich, Irina Bogatyreva, Anna Lavrinenko, and Anna Leonidova.

In Conversation With The Sudanese Ambassador - A Territorial Dispute

Title: In Conversation With The Sudanese Ambassador - A Territorial Dispute
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Voice of Russia's Tim Ecott interviews Abdulahi Al Azreg, the Sudanese Ambassador to Britain, in the London bureau's studio.
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The border between Sudan and South Sudan is once again the subject of shelling and gunfire. A dispute over the territory around Heglig has led to rising tensions between the government of President Omar El Bashir and his southern neighbour led by Salva Kiir. The two countries fought a bitter civil war for twenty years before agrreding that the south would ce-cede but they still can't agree on where exactly the border lies....

Gang Culture in film and the London 2011 riots

Title: Gang Culture in film and the London 2011 riots
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Voice of Russia's Polina Boiko hosts a studio discussion inspired by the viewing of La Haine in Tottenham, where the London summer riots of 2011 began. The eclectic panel discuss the riots, gang culture and its portrayal in film.

The guests are: Guy Lodge -- a film critic from the Telegraph, Dr.Clifford Stott - Managing director at Crowd & Conflict Management and an expert in crowd psychology, and Ali Crossley- Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Justice and authored their recent report on the youth justice system 'Rules of Engagement'.

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Title: Sergei Zakharov is coming to London!
Runtime: 3:52
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Legendary Russian baritone Sergei Zakharov is coming to London for his first major UK concert on 1 May at St John's, Smith Square. Alice Lagnado of Voice of Russia radio in London spoke to Olga Bramley, who's bringing Zakharov to the UK, about the concert. The piece features Sergei Zakharov singing 'The night is bright'. To find out more or buy tickets to the concert, please visit www.sjss.org.uk

How free is the internet? (25 April 2012)

Title: How free is the internet? (25 April 2012)
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: VOR, London's Brendan Cole hosts a panel discussion on whether the internet should be policed. Is the web truly free and what do those freedoms really mean? Are we seeing an encroachment of those freedoms?

Qatada and Britain's Battle with the Euro Rights Court (24 April 2012)

Title: Qatada and Britain's Battle with the Euro Rights Court (24 April 2012)
Runtime: 28:31
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: VOR London's James Reinl hosts a debate on the deportation of radical cleric Abu Qatada and Britain's thorny relationship with European Court of Human Rights. He was joined by Martin Howe, a human right lawyer from the firm Howe and Co, Hannah Stuart, a researcher for a think tank called the Henry Jackson Society, and Emma Boon from the Tax Payers' Alliance. (24 April 2012)

Even an Outside Chance for Sarkozy? (20 April 2012)

Title: Even an Outside Chance for Sarkozy? (20 April 2012)
Runtime: 28:31
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: VOR London's James Reinl hosts a debate on France's presidential elections, and asks whether the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, has even an outside chance of keeping his job. He was joined by Adrian Pabst from the University of Kent, Zoé Tabary from Le Petit Journal, Jean-Michel Duffrène, a presenter for French Radio London and John Laughland from the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation in Paris. (20 April 2012)

Stripping Cigarette Packs Of All Branding

Title: Stripping Cigarette Packs Of All Branding
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: VOR, London's Juliet Spare and a panel of guests debate the government's consideration of stripping cigarette packets of all branding...

Title: TV cameras in court rooms
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Voice of Russia's Tim Walklate hosts a panel discussion on televised court hearings. Colin Wells, a criminal defence lawyer at 25 Bedford Row, Priscilla Coleman, a court room sketch artist, Robert Brown, partner at Corker Binning, Mark Stephens, a media lawyer, and David Banks, a media law trainer and co-author of the 18th, 19th and 20th editions of "McNae's Essential Law for Journalists" join him in VOR's London studio.

Breivik and extremism in the 21st century

Title: Breivik and extremism in the 21st century
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Norwegian right wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik who killed 77 people in his bombing and shooting campaign says he was defending Norway from multiculturalism.

Breivik told a court in Oslo that the people he targetted at a political summer camp on Utoya island - run by Norway's Labour Party - were "brainwashed" and "actively uphold multicultural values".

But strip away his extremism and narcissism - echoes of what he has to say can be found in conservative political thought.

He's stated that he feared Norwegians would become a minority in their own country - and it's a fear we've seen expressed in the British media and it's been at the heart of the French presidential election.

The Voice of Russia's Daniel Cinna hosts a studio discussion on extremism with Omar El Hamdoon, the President of the Muslim Association of Britain. Kevin Caroll - the co-leader of the English Defence League. Aslak Sira Myre - a former Socialist ...

Elena Davydova - an interview with the artist

Title: Elena Davydova - an interview with the artist
Runtime: 3:41
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: This week, established Russian artist Elena Davydova brings her first major exhibition to the UK. Her paintings of Moscow and London show the cities at their best. We invited Elena into our studio along with Vera Ignatyeva, who is curating the exhibition - which opens on the 23rd of April at the Frameless gallery in Clerkenwell. If you want to find out more about Elena's exhibition and her work in general, please visit http://eleonarch.com
The picture here is called Дуб и терновник/Oak and Tern and is one of the artist's paintings of London. Interview by Alice Lagnado.

Title: Sports Talk (20 April 2012)
Runtime: 15:44
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description

Continuing violence in Syria (17 April 2012)

Title: Continuing violence in Syria (17 April 2012)
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: VOR's James Reinl hosts a discussion on continuing violence in Syria despite the arrival of UN monitors as part of the peace plan hatched by international envoy, Kofi Annan. He was joined by Manal Lotfi, from pan-Arab newspaper Alhayat, Saad Jawad, from the London School of Economics, Yossi Mekelberg, from the think tank Chatham House, Patrick Hayes, commentator for the website spiked and Andrey Baklitskiy, from the Russian Center for Policy Studies. (17 April 2012)

Syria: Blue Berets to the Rescue? (03 April 2012)

Title: Syria: Blue Berets to the Rescue? (03 April 2012)
Runtime: 28:31
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: VOR's James Reinl hosts a debate on Syria's agreement to withdraw military hardware from towns as part of a peace plan, and asks whether president Bashar al Assad will live up to his word. He was joined by Abdul Wahad Omar, the opposition activist, the analysts Mohamed Entabli and Sabah Al-Mukhtar, and Evgeny Satanovsky president of the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies (3 April 2012)

Title: Attack of the Drones
Runtime: 28:31
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description

A Way Out of Iran's Nuclear Deadlock? (16 April 2012)

Title: A Way Out of Iran's Nuclear Deadlock? (16 April 2012)
Runtime: 28:27
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: VOR's James Reinl hosts a debate on the Istanbul talks between Iran, the permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany over its controversial nuclear programme. He was joined by Patrick Hayes, a commentator for the website spiked, Matthew Harris, the pro-Israel Liberal Democrat blogger, David Cliff, researcher for the arms agreement monitor VIRTEC, the blogger David Morrison and Andrey Baklitskiy, from the Russian Center for Policy Studies.

Time to Abandon Myanmar Sanctions? (5 April 2012)

Title: Time to Abandon Myanmar Sanctions? (5 April 2012)
Runtime: 28:31
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: VOR's James Reinl hosts a discussion on Myanmar's election win for the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, democratic reform and lifting sanctions on the Southeast Asian nation. He was joined by Zoya Phan, from the rights group Burma Campaign UK, the author Justin Wintle, Jonas Parello-Plesner from the European Council on Foreign Relations and Jim Della-Giacoma, an analyst for the International Crisis Group. (5 April 2012)

Julian Gallant of Pushkin House - an interview

Title: Julian Gallant of Pushkin House - an interview
Runtime: 13:25
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Pushkin House is the Russian cultural centre in London that has enjoyed a dramatic revival in the last five years. It's now the place to be for Russians and Russophiles in London. It has a new building in Bloomsbury and every day writers, artists, musicians and filmmakers - both Russians and Britons who are interested in Russia -- come to the venue to show their work, give talks and exchange views. Julian Gallant is a conductor and pianist who became the director of Pushkin House when it relaunched in 2006. Alice Lagnado talked to him about Pushkin House and about his own career.

MEET THE MEDIA. Russian organised crime in the UK - 29 March 2012

Title: MEET THE MEDIA. Russian organised crime in the UK - 29 March 2012
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: A panel of guests, all representatives of Russian media in the UK and Tom Hedegard from the Voice of Russia, London discuss the assassination of the Russian banker German Gorbuntsov and look at Russian organised crime in the UK.

Alcohol in the UK -- should minimum unit pricing be introduced?

Title: Alcohol in the UK -- should minimum unit pricing be introduced?
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The government wants to set a minimum price of 40 pence per unit of alcohol and is considering stricter control over advertising rules and multi-buy deals.

But there has been a mixed reaction to the coalition's efforts to tackle what David Cameron calls "the scourge of violence caused by binge drinking".

To discuss -- Polina Boiko is joined in the studio by:

JAMES MORRIS from ALCOHOL POLICY UK.

GAVIN PARTINGTON -- Interim Chief Executive at the WINE AND SPIRIT TRADE ASSOCIATION.

PROFESSOR ALAN MARIUS DAVIES -- HONORARY PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH from the DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES at KING'S COLLEGE LONDON.

And on the phone from Russia:

Erkin Tuzmukhamedov from Russia's Association of Sommeliers -- and an expert in Russia's alcohol traditions.

Link between video games and violent behaviour

Title: Link between video games and violent behaviour
Runtime: 28:30
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description

Title: Russian Easter!
Runtime: 4:43
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: This weekend, Russian Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter -- a week later than in the UK, because it's set according to the old Julian calendar. Easter is the most important religious festival in Russian Orthodoxy. Alice Lagnado finds out why. Includes interviews with Father Joseph Skinner of the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Sourozh in London, and journalist and religious expert Andrei Zolotov in Moscow.

Title: The Mariinsky on tour!
Runtime: 9:06
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Mariinsky Theatre came to Britain this Easter for a spring tour of the UK, visiting Cardiff, London, and Birmingham, and bringing productions of Wagner's Parsifal, Mahler's Symphony No. 8, and Verdi's Requiem. Alice Lagnado went behind the scenes and talked to those involved. Includes interviews with opera soloists Yevgeny Nikitin and Alexander Timchenko and chorus member Nadezhda Khadzheva, and a few notes from bass clarinettist Yury Zyuryaev. Also includes an interview with the artistic director of the Wales Millennium Centre, Conrad Lynch.
This programme was first aired on Voice of Russia DAB digital radio in London on 11 April, 2012. We welcome any feedback - please write to lagnado@ruvr.ru with any comments or queries.
Voice of Russia radio broadcasts every weekday from 4 pm on DAB digital radio.

Title: Creationism and the Tennessee Bill
Runtime: 28:28
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description

Title: Eifman ballet in London!
Runtime: 4:53
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Eifman modern ballet from St Petersburg came to London this Easter, bringing two ballets, Anna Karenina and Onegin, to Britain for the first time. I invited Victoria Shamlikashvili of the Eifman company into the studio, and started by asking her how the productions had been received in the UK. Photograph from Anna Karenina, courtesy of Eifman Ballet.

Helping one girl who survived Beslan to get the help she needs

Title: Helping one girl who survived Beslan to get the help she needs
Runtime: 6:10
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Fatima Dzayeva was nine years old when gunmen attacked her school in Beslan, southern Russia. They held over a thousand people hostage for three days, and nearly 400 died. Eight years afterwards, Fatima is still in need of urgent medical help to counter the effects of a serious head injury. The Russian community in London is raising money to help Fatima get the help she needs. I spoke to Olga Makharinsky of the Chance for Life charity, who is leading the fundraising efforts. The picture shows, left, Maria Eliseeva of the Maria's Children charity, middle, Fatima, and right, Olga Makharinsky. If you would like to make a donation to help Fatima, please visit http://chanceforlife.co.uk/?cat=21

Title: The future of genetically modified food
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: A panel of experts, including a scientist from Rothamsted Research, an International Programmes Officer on Food Justice from War on Want, the Chairman of the Agricultural Biological Council and spokesperson for Biotech Industry in the UK, as well as the secretary for CIS Alliance on Biosafety look at the science behind and the future of genetically modified food.

Title: State Pension and Retirement Age
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Tim Walklate from the Voice of Russia in London speaks to a panel of guests about proposals to increase the state pension age in the UK.

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Title: Organised crime in the UK
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Tom Hedegard from the Voice of Russia in London speaks to a panel of guests about organised crime, specifically Russian organised crime, on British soil.

Title: Assad A Man of His Word 3 April 2012
Runtime: 28:31
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description

The future of Royal Mail and letter-writing

Title: The future of Royal Mail and letter-writing
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: As Royal Mail plans to increase the price of First and Second Class stamps, we ask some fundimental questions. Who will be hit the hardest by this increase? Who will take no notice at all? Do people mostly prefer hand-written love letters to e-mails?
Daniel Cinna from the Voice of Russia in London tries to understand the importance of letter-writing and the postal service in our society today.

The Boy from Baby House 10 - Vanya's story

Title: The Boy from Baby House 10 - Vanya's story
Runtime: 26:25
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Boy from Baby House 10 is the incredible story of how a small boy called Vanya was rescued from a Dickensian orphanage in Russia, and successfully adopted. This is an in-depth interview with the author of The Boy from Baby House 10, Alan Philps, and his wife Sarah, who was instrumental in getting Vanya out of the orphanage and into a loving home. The piece also includes short interviews with Natalia Vodianova, the supermodel and founder of the Naked Heart charity, who has written a foreword to the Russian version of the book and whose mother refused to hand her sister, who has cerebral palsy, over to a state orphanage, and Vanya, who is now called John and lives in the US. Interviews by Alice Lagnado for Voice of Russia radio in London.

Russians in London and the UK - Timofei Khodkov, physicist

Title: Russians in London and the UK - Timofei Khodkov, physicist
Runtime: 9:09
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Timofei Khodkov is half Russian and half Ukrainian, and he's studying for a PhD in physics at the University of Exeter. Alice Lagnado talked to him for Voice of Russia radio in London as part of a regular series of interviews with Russians living and working in the UK.

Title: Gang culture in the UK
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: How many gangs operate in the UK? The psychology behind kids joining street gangs. How safe are our streets? How is the government tackling the problem? Voice of Russia hosts a panel of guests discussing gang-related organised crime in the UK...

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