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The Essay: The World Turned Upside Down: Episode 4: Ivan Kytka

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Episode 4: Ivan Kytka

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Journalist Ivan Kytka reflects on the importance of cars in communist Czechoslovakia.

Passports, garden chairs, cars or contraceptives. Four essayists from former Warsaw Pact nations reflect on the changing use and meaning of an apparently banal object - an object that unlocks a wider story about how daily life in their country was transformed by the dramatic events of 1989. 

In today's programme the journalist Ivan Kytka reflects on the importance of cars in communist Czechoslovakia. 

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Writers former Warsaw Pact nations on the changing meaning of a seemingly banal object

Essayists from former Warsaw Pact nations reflect on the changing use and meaning of a seemingly banal object - unlocking a story about how life in their country was altered by the 1989 revolutions

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