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10 August 2008

Alexander Solzhenitsyn revisited

Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died at the age of 89. His work is testament to the power of the written word to change the world. We revisit a powerful program on Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, first broadcast in 2007. Master interviewer Terry Lane interrogates a great work of art, and the uncompromising life of its creator.


Guests

Professor Michael Scammell
Columbia University

Anne Applebaum
Writer

Judith Armstrong
Former Reader in Russian, University of Melbourne

Publications

Title: Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, paperback, 1986. ISBN 0393303780
Author: Michael Scammell
Publisher: Norton, W W & Company, USA

Title: Gulag: A History, ISBN 0767900561
Author: Anne Applebaum
Publisher: Hutchinson Books

Music

CD title: Dmitri Shostakovic, Jazz Suite No.1, conductor: Ricardo Chailly
Track title: The Waltz, from Jazz Suite No. 1
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovic
CD details: Decca 433702

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