Ofallthepoetswritingin Russia today, it is Bella Akhma dulina who most explicitly acknowledges a debt to her great predecessors, Anna Akh matova and Marina Tsvetayeva. In her final programme on women and poetry in the Soviet Union, the poet and novelist Elaine Feinstein looks at the work of Bella Akhmadulina , with readings recorded during Akhmadulina's visit to Paris in 1977. Reader FRANCES HOROVITZ Producer FRASER STEEL
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