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Food scares and food safety - expert panel

Title: Food scares and food safety - expert panel
Runtime: 28:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: How safe is the food you buy at your local supermarket? Is the pizza from your local takeaway saltier than the Atlantic ocean? Is red meat unhealthy? What part does the media play in creating false perceptions of the food we eat? Voice of Russia's Daniel Cinna and a panel of experts look for the answers...

Title: Legalising the death penalty
Runtime: 25:00
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Should the death penalty be reinstated in the UK? What is the situation in Russia? How well is America handling its capital punishment system? Tim Walklate leads a panel of guests looking at the pro's and con's of capital punishment.

Anglo-Argentine tension over the Falklands

Title: Anglo-Argentine tension over the Falklands
Runtime: 28:15
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: As the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War approaches, Tim Ecott from the Voice of Russia in London speaks to a panel of guests about whether the islands should remain British.

Title: The Future of Cyber-Warfare
Runtime: 25:19
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Voice of Russia's Daniel Cinna hosts a discussion with an expert panel on the future of cyber-warfare.

Title: Abortion - a debate
Runtime: 25:01
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Russian government has limited the social reasons for which a woman can have an abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy. Until now, women in prison, widows, those with husbands with severe disabilities, rape victims, and women stripped of parental rights all qualified for state-funded abortions after 12 weeks. Now, only women who have been raped will qualify. The government says the move is necessary to turn around Russia's demographic crisis, that acording to the UN threatens to knock a fifth off the country's population by 2050. To discuss this, Polina Boiko is joined by Anne Scanlan, London region education officer for the Life charity, Kate Smurthwaite, media spokesperson for Abortion Rights UK, and Dr Charlie Walker, lecturer in sociology at the University of Southampton.

Title: Chemical castration - a debate
Runtime: 25:02
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Up to 100 prisoners have volunteered to be chemically castrated as part of a government pilot scheme to alter the bheaviouf of high-risk sex offenders. To discuss the issue, Polina Boiko invited Jonathan Taylor, a criminal psychology specialist and child protection expert and Nikhil Roy, programme development director of Penal Reform into our studio at Voice of Russia in London, with, on the line, Donald Findlater, director of the Lucy Faithfull Foundation.

Title: Women in business - a debate
Runtime: 25:01
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: European Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said that countries' voluntary action to boost women's representation on decisionmaking boards has largely failed, and that quotas could be the solution. But are they a good idea? Polina Boiko talks to Jane Barnes, founder of the Yakkety-Yak multimedia company, Ben Davidson, founder and MD of Achieve Recruitment, and David O'Hara, founder of investment company Blackthorn Focus to find out more.

A Warsaw Melody - an interview with the play's director Oleg Mirochnikov

Title: A Warsaw Melody - an interview with the play's director Oleg Mirochnikov
Runtime: 8:08
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: A Warsaw Melody is a play by Leonid Zorin about love in the Soviet bloc. The play is popular in Russia - but until now has never been staged in the UK. This month it's coming to the Arcola theatre in east London. Here, Alice Lagnado interviews director Oleg Mirochnikov, who lives in London, about the play, and about his career. You can find out more about A Warsaw Melody at www.arcolatheatre.com/production/arcola/a-warsaw-melody and more about Oleg and his work at www.olegmirochnikov.com The photograph shows Oleg at work.

Title: Afghanistan was it worth it?
Runtime: 25:00
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Tom Hedegard hosts a discussion on the war in Afghanistan. He is joined in the studio by Ben Harris-Quiney, Chris Nineman and on the telephone, Nikita Mendkovich. On a recent visit to Ground Zero in New York, British Prime Minister David Cameron said that the Nato led mission was a success.

Title: The 2012 UK budget
Runtime: 24:59
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Voice of Russia's Tom Hedegard hosts a discussion on the 2012 budget. With guests Robert Oxley, Gavin Hayes, Philip Booth and on the telephone Lauren Thorpe and with Stephen Barber.

The Right to Wear Religious Symbols at Work

Title: The Right to Wear Religious Symbols at Work
Runtime: 28:28
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Voice of Russia's Daniel Cinna hosts a discussion on the right to wear religious symbols at work

Title: The Future of the British High Street
Runtime: 25:00
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Voice of Russia's Daniel Cinna hosts a discussion on the future of the British high street.

Valentin Olovyannikov, dancer with the Birmingham Royal Ballet

Title: Valentin Olovyannikov, dancer with the Birmingham Royal Ballet
Runtime: 11:42
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Valentin Olovyannikov is the only Russian dancer in the Birmingham Royal Ballet, one of the UK's oldest ballet companies. He was in London recently to dance in Coppelia at the Coliseum. Here, Alice Lagnado talks to him for Voice of Russia radio in London about his career to date.

Title: Adoption in the UK - a discussion
Runtime: 25:01
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Alice Lagnado hosts a discussion for Voice of Russia radio in London on the proposed changes to the UK's adoption system, with Gareth Crossman, director of external affairs for the fostering and adoption charity TACT, Sue Kent, professional officer at the British Association of Social Workers, Cecile Trijssenaar, who runs the International Adoption Guide, a comprehensive resource for people who want to adopt from outside the UK, and Jabeer Butt, deputy chief executive of the Race Equality Foundation.

Title: Is two better than one?
Runtime: 25:02
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Tom Hedegard hosts a discussion on animal and human cloning with Barbara Prainsack, Professor of Sociology and Politics of Bioscience at Brunel University, Joyce D'Silva, former CEO of Compassion in World Farming; Dr David Whitehouse, science journalist and author, as well as Dr Panayotis Zavos from the Andrology Institute of America.

Title: OLYMPICS IS IT WORTH THE MONEY
Runtime: 24:59
Date posted: 14 years ago
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Title: Two Days / Два дня
Runtime: 6:14
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Acclaimed director and screenwriter Avdotiya Smirnova's new film, Two Days, is about an unlikely romance between a cultured but poverty-stricken academic and a sophisticated government official. He wants to close down the writer's estate where she works - but his plan goes pear-shaped when sparks fly between the two. The film premiered in London this week. Here, Alice Lagnado interviews Avdotiya Smirnova about her film for Voice of Russia radio in London. If you want to find out more about the film, you can visit http://dvadnya.ru (in Russian).
The photograph shows Fyodor Bondarchuk as Pyotr Drozdov, and Ksenia Rappoport as Masha, in a scene from the film.

Title: Multiculturalism Debate
Runtime: 25:01
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Voice of Russia's Daniel Cinna hosts a debate on the future of multiculturalism

Title: Criminal responsibility debate
Runtime: 25:01
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Tom Hedegard hosts a debate for Voice of Russia radio in London on the age of criminal responsibility in the UK and Russia. His guests included Nicholas Mackintosh, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge, Emily Smith, Policy Officer at Fair Trials International, and Nikhil Roy, Programme development director at Penal Reform International.

Title: The Bolshoi goes viral
Runtime: 8:40
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: This week the Bolshoi Theatre opened its doors to thousands more people in Russia by showing a full-length story ballet live on Youtube. The move is part of a wider trend of making the arts more accessible both in Russia and the West, and has been welcomed by balletomanes. Here, Alice Lagnado talks to Ekaterina Novikova, head of press for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, and Linda Uruchurtu, who writes for The Ballet Bag website, about the trend. The picture shows Svetlana Zakharova and David Hallberg in Sleeping Beauty. Photograph: Damir Yusupov/Bolshoi Theatre.

Title: Russians in London - Alexandra Kiaby
Runtime: 6:04
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: An interview with young fashion designer Alexandra Kiaby by Alice Lagnado, as part of a series of interviews with Russians living in London. The picture shows clothes from her collection, which is at www.alexandrakiaby.ru

An interview with Yuriy Galkin, jazz musician and composer

Title: An interview with Yuriy Galkin, jazz musician and composer
Runtime: 7:32
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Yuriy Galkin is a jazz musician and composer who won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in 2005. He's made his name as a bass player and has set up a 9-piece orchestra, which is currently touring the UK. Alice Lagnado interviewed him as part of her regular series of interviews with Russians in London for Voice of Russia radio. To find out more about Yuriy's work, please visit www.yuriygalkin.com

Title: NHS LIFESTYLE CHOICES
Runtime: 24:59
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description

Title: humans and machines
Runtime: 25:05
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description

Title: Konstantin
Runtime: 9:14
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Konstantin is a new novel by Tom Bullough, which tells the story of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the founding father of the Soviet space programme. Konstantin grew up in a poor family in the Russian provinces, and was deafened as a child due to scarlet fever. But he went on to invent the first theoretically sound proof of the viability of space travel, pressurised space suits, space stations, and much more. Here, Alice Lagnado interviews Tom Bullough about his book. You can find out more about Tom's book at www.tombullough.com

Title: Extradition debate with Tom Hedegard
Runtime: 25:01
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Tom Hedegard hosts a discussion on extradition with lawyer and former US assistant attorney Robert Henoch, extradition lawyer Fadi Daoud, and Emily Smith, policy officer at Fair Trials International.

Title: Meet the Media - 8 March
Runtime: 25:00
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Tom Hedegard discusses media coverage in Russia of Sunday's presidential election, with his guests Anton Volsky, Viktor Balagadde and Dmitry Soshin.

The Promise - helping disabled children in Russia

Title: The Promise - helping disabled children in Russia
Runtime: 12:14
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: When Sarah Settelen's disabled daughter died at a young age, she decided she wanted to do something to help children with disabilities. After reading a newspaper article about Russian orphanages, and without knowing a word of Russian, she set off to volunteer at an orphanage in the Russian provinces. She then founded a charity, The Promise, which trains Russian parents and carers to enable disabled children to live full and active lives. Alice Lagnado interviewed Sarah Settelen about her work. You can visit www.thepromise.org.uk to find out more about the charity.

Title: Gay Marriage Debate
Runtime: 25:01
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Voice of Russia's Daniel Cinna chairs a discussion on homosexual marriage.

Title: Happy Women's Day!
Runtime: 4:03
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The 8th of March is International Women's Day. While in the UK, the day is a time of serious debate about the role of women in society, in Russia it's a national holiday with a different flavour. Alice Lagnado talked to three writers there, Natalia Antonova, Larissa Miller and Andrei Bychkov, to find out how they see it.

Alice Lagnado reporting there.

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Title: Pavlova! 2/2
Runtime: 5:16
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: In the second of two pieces on the Anna Pavlova ballet gala in at the London Coliseum on March 4th, Alice Lagnado talks to Graham Watts, chairman of the Critics' circle, which represents professional theatre critics in the UK, about the trials and tribulations of staging a ballet gala. The picture shows Pavlova in 'Russkaya', and is courtesy of Dancing Times.

An interview with Russian poet and journalist Dmitry Bykov, 2/2

Title: An interview with Russian poet and journalist Dmitry Bykov, 2/2
Runtime: 11:53
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Dmitry Bykov in interview with Polina Boiko, Alice Lagnado, and Dmitry Linnik at The Voice of Russia in London. 2/2

An interview with Russian poet and journalist Dmitry Bykov, 1/2

Title: An interview with Russian poet and journalist Dmitry Bykov, 1/2
Runtime: 13:20
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Dmitry Bykov in interview with Polina Boiko, Alice Lagnado, and Dmitry Linnik at The Voice of Russia in London.

Russophiles be glad... the new Russian bookshop in London has arrived!

Title: Russophiles be glad... the new Russian bookshop in London has arrived!
Runtime: 14:53
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Alice Lagnado interviews Waterstones' Head of Operations, Neil Best, and bookseller Masha Padriarei about this new mecca for Russophiles.

Photograph shows Waterstones bookseller Dina White. Photograph is copyright Paul Read.

Title: Pavlova! 1/2
Runtime: 7:53
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Ballet superstars came to London on March 4th for a gala in honour of the ballerina Anna Pavlova. She made London her home a hundred years ago. But many people today associate her name more with a sweet meringue dessert than her graceful dancing. Alice Lagnado talked to Rupert Christiansen, ballet critic for The Mail on Sunday, about Pavlova's legacy.

Title: Meet the Media March 2 - PT 2
Runtime: 12:19
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Scott Craig discusses media coverage in Russia of the upcoming Presidential election, with his guests Alexander Smotrov, Viktor Balagadde and Margarita Stewart.

Title: Meet the Media March 2 - PT 1
Runtime: 12:43
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Scott Craig discusses media coverage in Russia of the upcoming Presidential election, with his guests Alexander Smotrov, Viktor Balagadde and Margarita Stewart.

Title: Nikolai Lugansky - an interview
Runtime: 9:34
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Nikolai Lugansky is widely acknowledged as one of Russia's most talented contemporary pianists. We invited him into our London studio, where Alice Lagnado started by asking Nikolai how it was that he started to play the piano in the first place.

Title: EU Expansion? Part 2
Runtime: 10:01
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Scott Craig asks if EU expansion plans are now firmly off the cards because of the Greek debt crisis. With guests Athanasios Manis from the LSE, Brendan Donnely of Federal Trust and Robert Oulds of the Bruges Group.

Title: EU Expansion? Pt 1
Runtime: 15:01
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Scott Craig asks if EU expansion plans are now firmly off the cards because of the Greek debt crisis. With guests Athanasios Manis from the LSE, Brendan Donnely of Federal Trust and Robert Oulds of the Bruges Group.

Greek Bailout Discussion with David Coburn (UKIP) & Petros Fassoulas (Euromove) PT3

Title: Greek Bailout Discussion with David Coburn (UKIP) & Petros Fassoulas (Euromove) PT3
Runtime: 8:19
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description

Title: Defence Trends of the Future - Part 2
Runtime: 10:40
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Scott Craig looks at who the big spenders are in global defence spending and asks, what can we tell about where they perceive future threats coming from? With guests:

Dr Julian Richards
University of Buckingham

Dr John Louth
RUSI

Francis Tusa
Editor, Defence Analysis

Greek Bailout Discussion with David Coburn (UKIP) & Petros Fassoulas (Euromove)PT2

Title: Greek Bailout Discussion with David Coburn (UKIP) & Petros Fassoulas (Euromove)PT2
Runtime: 9:21
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: A discussion on Greece's recent EU bailout and the country's future, in or out of the single market.

Title: Defence Trends of the Future - Part 1
Runtime: 14:22
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Scott Craig looks at who the big spenders are in global defence spending and asks, what can we tell about where they perceive future threats coming from? With guests:

Dr Julian Richards
University of Buckingham

Dr John Louth
RUSI

Francis Tusa
Editor, Defence Analysis

Who'd run a marathon across frozen Lake Baikal?

Title: Who'd run a marathon across frozen Lake Baikal?
Runtime: 9:20
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Lucy Ward, a British woman living in Moscow, is running a half marathon across Lake Baikal on Saturday to raise money for The Promise charity, which helps disabled children in Russia. Alice Lagnado talked to Lucy for Voice of Russia radio in London about the perils of running across a frozen Siberian lake.
Visit www.thepromise.org.uk to find out more about the charity, and to Lucy's page www.justgiving.com/LucyMirandaWard if you'd like to donate. The picture shows Lucy in training in Moscow.

Greek Bailout Discussion with David Coburn (UKIP) & Petros Fassoulas (Euromove)

Title: Greek Bailout Discussion with David Coburn (UKIP) & Petros Fassoulas (Euromove)
Runtime: 7:27
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: A discussion on Greece's recent EU bailout and the country's future, in or out of the single market.

Russians in London - Katherine Alexander, businesswoman

Title: Russians in London - Katherine Alexander, businesswoman
Runtime: 12:25
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: As part of a regular series of interviews with Russians in London, Alice Lagnado talks to Katherine Alexander, a businesswoman and mother who moved here 11 years ago.

Russian mothers mark a different kind of Army Day/Фонд "Право Матери"

Title: Russian mothers mark a different kind of Army Day/Фонд "Право Матери"
Runtime: 3:42
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Russian Army Day on February 23rd is traditionally a national holiday full of pomp and circumstance. But one Moscow charity marked a different kind of Army Day. The 'Mother's Right' charity works with the families of conscripts who die in the Russian armed forces in peacetime, often due to bullying and abuse. Alice Lagnado talked to Marina Chumak, a volunteer at the charity, about the memorial service they hold each year for men who have died too young. If you want to find out more about Mother's Right, please visit http://mright.hro.org/eng

Title: Meet the Media Feb 23 - PT 1
Runtime: 15:01
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Scott Craig hosts Meet the Media with guests Dmitry Elovsky of Dozhd TV, Anton Volsky of NTV and Viktor Balagadde from Kommersant UK. This week they discuss how Russian opposition figures are portrayed in the Russian media, as well as the anticipated public response to the Russian screening of the documentary series 'Putin, Russia and the West' on NTV.

Marie Colvin: interview with Anthony Loyd

Title: Marie Colvin: interview with Anthony Loyd
Runtime: 3:28
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: A short interview with Anthony Loyd of The Times about Marie Colvin. By Alice Lagnado, for Voice of Russia radio in London. The picture shows Marie in Homs, inspecting a destroyed house in which four women died. Picture courtesy of The Sunday Times.

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