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Book of the Week: Svetlana Alliluyeva - 20 Letters to a Friend

Book of the Week: Svetlana Alliluyeva - 20 Letters to a Friend: Episode 4

20 Letters to a Friend

Episode 4

Svetlana Alliluyeva - 20 Letters to a Friend

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Svetlana Alliluyeva - 20 Letters to a Friend, Episode 4

Svetlana writes to her friend of the heartbreaking period before and during the war.

Recalling teenage years, Svetlana writes about the heart-breaking period before and during the war.  Read by Stella Gonet.

By Svetlana Alliluyeva. Abridged by Eileen Horne.

Turning to her teenage years, Svetlana writes to her friend of the heartbreaking period before and during the war when she loses a brother and gains a lover, against her father's wishes...


Read by Stella Gonet


Producer: Clive Brill
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Extracts from the memoir of Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, who died in Nov 2011

Extracts from the memoir of Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, who died in November 2011

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