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Pushing Back the Curtain

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

The series in which Misha Glenny talks to decision makers and ordinary people about the collapse of Communism in eastern Europe ten years ago. 5: Czechoslovakia, November 1989-a Velvet Con? Heavily controlled and oppressed Czechoslovakia erupts on 17 November.
Students, intellectuals and workers rise up. By the end of December Vaclav Havel is president. Producers Maria Balinska , Rosie Goldsmith and Tim Whewell

Contributors

Talks:
Misha Glenny
Unknown:
Vaclav Havel
Producers:
Maria Balinska
Producers:
Rosie Goldsmith
Producers:
Tim Whewell
Source: Radio Times

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