Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Sarah Hudspith

Associate Professor in Russian at the University of Leeds

2 episodes

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  1. The Emancipation of the Serfs

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Tsar Alexander II's 1861 decree that freed 30 million Russians from serfdom, an act of reform that followed Russia's defeat in the Crimean War.

    17 May 2018

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    Also featuring: Simon Dixon, Shane O'Rourke

     
  2. Tolstoy

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and times of the 19th century Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, whose novels such as War and Peace gave expression to the compelling moral and social questions of their day.

    25 April 2002

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    Also featuring: A. N. Wilson, Catriona Kelly