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Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history

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Book of the Week: Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea

Tracy Ann Oberman

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Katrin Williams

Duncan Minshull

Book of the Week: Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea: Episode 2

Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea

Episode 2

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea, Episode 2

On the train to Kiev and forced to give an impromptu recital by 'Our Robespierre'.

On the train to Kiev, away from the Bolsheviks. And Gooskin the indefatigable organiser gets the author and others out of various scrapes.

Teffi was a famous Russian writer in the early 1900's, forced to flee her country. And this is the story of her eventful flight, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson, Irina Steinberg. It is abridged for radio by Katrin Williams..

On the train to Kiev, away from the Bolsheviks. And Gooskin the indefatigable organiser gets the author and others out of various scrapes..

Reader Tracy-Ann Oberman

Producer Duncan Minshull.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

The story of Russian writer Teffi's eventful flight from her home country.

The story of Russian writer Teffi's eventful flight from her home country. Abridged for radio by Katrin Williams. Read by Tracy-Ann Oberman

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