Russia, Soviet Union

Last Edited: 19-Sep-2019 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.

Russia -- The Wild East
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
25-Aug-1990
Gorby: The Man and His Music
Bill Wallis, Sally Grace, Royce Mills,
Daniel Strauss
Played By: Colin Sell
25:38, 12018, m
CBC R1 IDEAS
11-Dec-2002
In the Stalin Archives Robert Johnson
produced by Max Allen
54:20, 12735, m
54:20, 12735, m
54:20, 12735, m
22050 Hz, mono,
clipping & ringing
off air, hiss
25-Sep-2004
Archive Hour – Stalin the Terrible
Jim Riordan
Produced by Alice Vernon Smith

 
12-Feb-2005
19-Feb-2005
The General Secretary: the Brezhnev Years
Miles Kington
Produced by Neil George
27:51, 26122, S
27:47, 26055, S
21-Apr-2005
28-Apr-2005
Putin’s Game
Lucy Ash
Produced by Nick Sturdy
28:13, 26464, S
28:21, 26591, S
28-May-2005
Archive Hour -- Plucked from the Fire
The story of YIVO –
archiving the history of East European Jewry
Tim Whewell
Produced by Maria Blinska

12-Nov-2005
Archive Hour – Selling Us the Soviets
Chris Bowlby
Produced by Smita Petel

 
16-Dec-2005
23-Dec-2005
30-Dec-2005
The Longest Road
The new road from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok
Peter Day
Produced by Neil Koenig
27:43, 26000, S
28:10, 26421, S
28:10, 26415, S
24-Feb-2006
The Speech that Shook the Kremlin
Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin
Tim Whewall
Produced by Leonida Krushilnitski
28:00, 26253, S
31-Jul-2006
07-Aug-2006
14-Aug-2006
Challenging the Silence
Art in Stalinist Russia
Martin Sixsmith
Produced by Alan Hall
28:03, 26302, S
28:00, 26254, S
28:05, 26329, S
24-Apr-2006
Chernobyl-Story
Bridget Kendall, Hans Blix
Producer: Ariane Koek
28:10, 26418, S
08-Sep-2006
Star City
The secret cosmonaut training centre
Jonathan Charles
Produced by Patricia Lalla
28:13, 26460, S
30-Oct-2006
follow-up
05-Dec-2010
The Long Walk
Escape from Siberia to India
Tim Whewell
Produced by Hugh Levenson
LOST
27:40, 25950, S
01-Jan-2007
Red Nostalgia
Louise Puck Hansen
Producer: Alan Hall
28:07, 26360, S
06-Feb-2007
File on Four – Russia’s poisoning without a poison
Julian O'Halloran
Produced by Jenny Criss
 
23-Feb-2007
Boris Yeltsin – A Flawed Giant
Andrew Harding
Produced by Simon Coates
28:05, 26336, S
13-Oct-2007
Archive Hour – War against the Family
Orlando Figes
Produced by Mark Berman
 
20-Oct-2007
Archive Hour – Freedom or Death
Orlando Figes
Produced by Mark Berman
 
04-Dec-2007
Russia's Lone Rangers
Lucy Ash
Producer: Lucy Ash
28:16, 26512, S
12-Jan-2008
Archive Hour – Snowy Streets of St Petersburg
Martin Sixsmith
Produced by Alan Hall
 
11-Feb-2008
18-Feb-2008
25-Feb-2008

Updates:
05-Oct-2008
12-Oct-2008
Dancing with the Russian Bear

Updated:
  1. The Jilted Lover
  2. The Bear Unbound
Tim Whewell
Produced by Kate Peters and
Mark Savage
28:16, 26515, S
28:02, 26283, S
27:58, 26221, S

28:15, 26492, S
28:10, 26407, S
10-Apr-2008
Crossing Continents -- Illegal logging in the Siberian Taiga
Lucy Ash
Produced by Mukul Devichand
28:03, 26305, S
28-Jul-2008
Petrov’s Dilemma
Jonathan Charles
Produced by Emily Williams
28:15, 26486, S
20-Nov-2008 Shooting Soviets: Cartier-Bresson in Moscow
Mark Haworth-Booth
Produced by Mahini Patel
28:25, 26657, S
09-Jan-2009 Me, Putin and Judo
Neil Adams
Produced by Martin Kurzig
28:05, 26331, S
14-Jan-2009 Black Students in Red Russia
Burt Caesar
Produced by Mary Ward Lowry
27:44, 26007, S
02-Nov-2009 Night Witches -- Russia's three all-female war regiments
Lucy Ash
27:45, 26031, S
01-Jan-2010 Spitting in Russian -- Spitting Image in Russia
Roger Law
produced by Mark Richards
28:13, 26463, S
17-Aug-2010 Why Russia Spies
Peter Hennessy
produced by Richard Knight
36:44, 34451, S
04-Apr-2011 The Communist Cosmos
Angus Roxburgh
Producer: Chris Walker

27:52, 26127, S
13-Jan-2012 But They Are Only Russians
John Sweeney
Producer: David Coomes
27:30, 25746, S
09-Jul-2012 to
13-Jul-2012
Siberian Stories
  1. Old Believers
  2. Autumn Migration
  3. The Shaman's Drum
  4. Khakassian Horsemen
  5. Reindeer People
Producer: Cicely Fell
13:29, 12624, S
13:40, 12799, S
13:40, 12973, S
13:13, 12378, S
13:54, 13016, S
01-Oct-2012 Putin, the Patriarch and Pussy Riot
Lucy Ash
produced by Nick Sturdy
27:53, 26098, S