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Villi: The Girl from Leningrad

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'Villi' Campbell is a Scotsman who lived in the Soviet Union for over 40 years and became a clown in the State Circus. In 1935 he was playing jazz in a small town on the edge of the Gulag Archipelago. There he fell in love with a girl waiting to be transported to one of the Camps and probable death... Should he be ashamed of what he did?

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Speaker:
'Villi' Campbell
Producer:
Hugh Purcell
Source: Radio Times

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