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Russia: Beneath the Sputniks

BBC One
on BBC One London

The Russians launched the world's first sputnik just ten years ago. Today the brains and skills responsible for that breakthrough are also contributing to a quiet revolution affecting the lives of 230 million Soviet citizens.
Nigel Calder went to the U.S.S.R. to see what is happening and to meet some of the people involved:
V. A. Kirillin, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the U.S.S.R. Committee for Science and Technology
A. N. Nesmeyanov, Former President of the U.S.S.R Academy of Science
A. Shesternev, Captain of the 1966 World Championship Soviet Soccer Team
Professor A. Orlova, Leningrad's leading woman brain surgeon
Written and narrated by Nigel Calder.
Additional narration by Dick Graham

Contributors

Reporter/Writer/Narrator:
Nigel Calder
Interviewee:
V.A. Kirillin
Interviewee:
A.N. Nesmeyanov
Interviewee:
A. Shesternev
Interviewee:
Professor A. Orlova
Additional narration:
Dick Graham
Associate Producer:
Andrew Wiseman
Produced and directed by:
Ramsay Short
Source: Radio Times

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