An impression of the Russian poet OSIP
IIANDELSTAM (1891-1938) through some of his own verse and the thoughts of his widow, in a programme compiled by JAMES GREENE from his translations of Mandelstam's poems. with Brian Cox as Osip and Rosalie Crutchley as Nadezhda
In 1934 Mandelstam was exiled to Voronezh for having written a poem in which he called Stalin ' a murderer of peasants He was re-arrested in Moscow in 1938. He died soon after in a transit camp near Vladivostok on his way to a labour camp. Russian reader Boris Isarov Directed by JOHN THEOCIIARIS