by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Translated and adapted for radio by NICHOLAS BETHELL with Nigel Stock
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was published in the Moscow literary monthly Novy Mir of November 1962 by a personal decision of Nikita Khrush chev. The time had come, decided Khrushchev, to reveal in the form of a novel details of life in a Stalinist corrective labour camp. The book became a best-seller in the West: in Russia it was a sensation. It brought Stalinism into the open. It was the end of a horrible era.
Produced by JOHN GIBSON
The place: Central Siberia in 1950 Second broadcast