'Even when I was a child, I knew I could not have a level fight as a girl; but what was important for all of us was, after all, the same - the tasks that lay ahead of us as human beings' (RIMMA KAZAKOVA, Secretary of the Moscow Writers' Union)
Lastyear,thepoetandnovelist Elaine Feinstein visited Russia. In the second of three programmes on women and poetry in the Soviet Union? she looks at the work of Margarita Aliger , Yunna Morits and Rimma Kazakova with recordings made during her visit. Reader Frances Horovitz ProducerFRASER STEEL
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