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Postscript: Life after Death: 2: Isolate but Preserve: the Files on Osip Mandelstam

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Five dramatised documentaries adapted from the KGB's literary archive by Vitaly Shentalinsky and presented by Professor James Riordan.
Osip Mandelstam read The Kremlin Mountaineer, his savage poetic attack on Stalin, behind closed doors to a small group of friends. But still they came for him in 1934. With Alex Jennings as Osip Mandelstam, Eleanor Bron as Nadezhda Mandelstam and Jon Strickland as interrogator Shivarov.

Contributors

Adapted by:
Vitaly ShentalinskyPresenter: Professor James Riordan.
Osip Mandelstam:
Alex Jennings
Nadezhda Mandelstam:
Eleanor Bron
Other readings:
James Telfer
Source: Radio Times

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