Correspondent: Poison City Tx Date: 9th March 2003 This script was made from audio tape – any inaccuracies are due to voices being unclear or inaudible 00.00.00 Correspondent Theme Music 00.00.11 Music 00.00.20 Tim Samuels There’s a Russian city so exceptional, it’s got its own entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. But it’s not something that anyone’s boasting about. 00.00.29 Music 00.00.35 Tim Samuels The Soviet Union tried to keep this place quiet for more than fifty years. 00.00.39 Music 00.00.42 Tim Samuels Now Russia’s reluctant record-holders are discovering the truth about where they live. 00.00.46 Music 00.00.54 Serafim Krivin Voice over People died over there. One person died in that house. Two people died here and three died in my house as well. 00.01.04 Music 00.01.10 Title Page POISON CITY 00.01.18 Tim Samuels Seraphim Krivin clocked up fifty-three years loyal service at the local factory. His wife Viera worked there too. 00.01.27 Tim Samuels But in his retirement Serafim’s becoming something of an eco-warrior; taking on the very factories, which have dominated his and his family’s life. 00.01.40 Music 00.01.44 Tim Samuels Dzerzhinsk; the ‘chemical capital’ of the USSR. 00.01.48 Music 00.01.53 Tim Samuels A city whose sole purpose was providing the Soviet Union with its vast arsenal of chemical weapons and a host of other industrial chemicals. 00.02.01 Music 00.02.06 Tim Samuels The chemical weapons are history but Dzerzhinsk isn’t an idle relic of the Cold War. 00.02.14 Tim Samuels The factories still employ a quarter of the town’s three hundred thousand residents, including Serafim’s two sons. 00.02.24 Tim Samuels A candy store of chemicals where almost any substance can be bought, even cyanide. Welcome to the world’s most chemically polluted town. 00.02.33 Music 00.02.46 Tim Samuels I’ve come to Dzerzhinsk to meet Serafim; the old man trying to shake up this city. 00.02.51 Tim Samuels Hardly a contender for Great Railway Journey’s of the World but this trip would have been out of the question ten years ago. 00.02.57 Music 00.03.02 Tim Samuels Dzerzhinsk was a secret city, closed to all foreigners. 00.03.09 Tim Samuels Moscow is only two hundred and fifty miles away but it feels like the clock stopped here in the Soviet era. 00.03.16 Tim Samuels And, true to form, a passenger has already sloped off to tell the secret police that we’d been filming. 00.03.27 Tim Samuels In less than sixty seconds I’m picked up and questioned for three hours. No flies on these spies. 00.03.38 Tim Samuels Besides chemicals, Dzerzhinsk is famous for one other export, the KGB. 00.03.44 Tim Samuels Felix Dzerzhinsky, the city’s most famous son, after which the place is named, founded the Soviet secret police. 00.03.53 Tim Samuels Now the Cold War’s over there isn’t much to keep his heirs busy. 00.03.58 Tim Samuels At least having a foreign TV crew in town, poking into the chemical plants, gave them something to get excited about. 00.04.07 Tim Samuels Note, the camera-shy guy in the leather jacket outside our hotel. 00.04.12 Tim Samuels A hotel called ‘The Friendship’. 00.04.24 Tim Samuels I catch up with Serafim at his village on the outskirts of the city. Here, like everywhere in Russia, it’s a daily struggle just to get by and it’s obvious the chemical factories dominate everyone’s lives. 00.04.38 Tim Samuels Just lying around is poisonous graphite. People burn it in their homes. 00.04.47 Aston SERAFIM KRIVIN Voice over Two buckets is enough to keep the house warm for twenty-four hours. But with so many stoves using it the air in the village became choked with gas. People learned that it was a bad thing to use the graphite. But they’re still using it today. 00.05.17 Tim Samuels Serafim’s campaign is getting a boost today, in the form of a visitor from the city. 00.05.26 Scientist Voice over Is Serafim at home? I’ve looked everywhere for him. I’ve come to take some samples from you. 00.05.44 Tim Samuels Serafim has called in a scientist from the Ecological Monitoring Centre. 00.05.51 Tim Samuels Before taking on the factories he needs to establish just how polluted his garden is. 00.05.57 Tim Samuels He has firm grounds for concern; his village is just a stone’s throw from a chemical plant making chlorine products. 00.06.08 Neighbour Voice over We get our water from a well. When it stands for a while a coat of oil forms on top and it goes all red. Last year we bought a calf. It drank water from the well and stopped growing after that. We tried to feed it all kind of things, but nothing helped. 00.06.32 Serafim Krivin Voice over Do you know Nina? She bought a cow, a young and strong one for breeding. Because she was busy getting ready for work she didn’t have time to give it water, so she hung a bucket on the cow’s neck. The cow drank from it twice and dropped dead. 00.06.57 Music 00.07.06 Tim Samuels The cow’s fate is better understood when you see what lies beside Serafim’s village. 00.07.10 Music 00.07.17 Tim Samuels The white sea; a toxic brew of chemicals discharged from nearby factories, which have turned the water into a white sludge. 00.07.25 Music 00.07.27 Tim Samuels Greenpeace say this is the dirtiest spot on earth. 00.07.30 Music 00.07.34 Tim Samuels Brimming with dioxins, by-products of chlorine production, even minute doses can cause cancer. 00.07.40 Music 00.07.48 Tim Samuels Not to be outdone, next to the white sea is the black hole; overflowing with dumped chemical drums. 00.07.55 Music 00.07.58 Tim Samuels Here levels of Phenol, an industrial chemical which can lead to acute poisoning and death, are seventeen million times over the safe limit. 00.08.06 Music 00.08.14 Tim Samuels The next stop for Serafim’s produce. 00.08.20 Tim Samuels The Ecological Monitoring Centre, it’s tiny budget in freefall but the only place in Dzerzhinsk keeping a watch on the environment. 00.08.30 Tim Samuels Its director has a sombre overview of the city’s situation. 00.08.42 Aston SERGEI DITATIEV Director Regional Centre of Ecological Monitoring Voice over Over one thousand, one hundred and fifty sources of pollution have been discovered. Of these more than a hundred and fifty are of the most dangerous type. Among them twenty-four main pollutants were specified as deadly dangerous for our people’s heath. 00.09.12 Tim Samuels Becoming an agitator, asking awkward questions, has come to Serafim late in life. 00.09.20 Tim Samuels Once a loyal cog in the Soviet machine, he spent half a century on the production line in the local chemical factory. 00.09.26 Tim Samuels A card carrying communist, proud his area was chosen to be the Soviet’s chemical laboratory. 00.09.38 Music 00.10.03 Serafim Krivin Voice over There was such a high spirit at that time. People worked without watching the clock or caring about the conditions. During the war there were cases of gas poisoning, people died but we didn’t give up. Nobody refused to work two shifts in a row. And when necessary people would work for three consecutive days. 00.10.35 Music 00.10.42 Serafim Krivin Voice over There was a sense of great pride and we were full of hope. We all participated in parades, it was a selfless time and everybody was happy. 00.10.53 Music 00.11.07 Tim Samuels Amidst the fervour of serving the state, one concept was entirely overlooked; the worker’s safety. 00.11.19 Serafim Krivin Voice over It was only during Perestroika that our eyes began to open and we learnt how the poison made it impossible for people to live. We’ll be poisoned for another hundred years but the authorities have turned a blind eye to it. 00.11.43 Tim Samuels To see what’s put the fire in this old man’s belly, where his campaigning zeal comes from, you have to come with him to the village cemetery. 00.11.59 Serafim Krivin Voice over Here is my daughter. She died in 1992 at the age of forty. She got married in 1973 and a year later had a stillborn baby. Later, she was diagnosed with stomach cancer. When I asked the doctor why she died so early he asked; where do you live? He blamed the environment and it’s true. 00.13.00 Music 00.13.21 Tim Samuels Creaking, leaking and on their last legs. But these factories are all that Dzerzhinsk has. 00.13.27 Tim Samuels Crying out for investment but the only foreign money coming in is for demolition. 00.13.33 Tim Samuels In World War Two this plant made the chemical agent lewisite; with a little British help it should be flattened within four years. 00.13.46 Tim Samuels Lewisite; made from arsenic and chlorine. Mode of killing; suffocation. With traces still around it seems like a pretty good time to crack out the protective kit brought from London. Regardless of what the locals might think. 00.14.01 Tim Samuels You’re embarrassed aren’t you? 00.14.02 Ewa No I’m not, go ahead. 00.14.04 Tim Samuels You’re embarrassed. 00.14.05 Ewa I’m not. 00.14.11 Tim Samuels You think I’m a North London hypochondriac? 00.14.13 Ewa No. I’m not. 00.14.15 Tim Samuels I’m not arguing with the BBC Health and Safety! 00.14.18 Ewa Ok. 00.14.23 Tim Samuels Baby blue boiler suits don’t impress Igor; the chief engineer at this former chemical weapons factory. 00.14.37 Tim Samuels Does he think we’re crazy? 00.14.42 Tim Samuels He does really. I don’t believe him. 00.14.47 Tim Samuels Out of politeness or maybe just making small talk, Igor tells me what to do in the event of exposure. 00.15.02 Igor Tsarikovsky Voice over In case of a discharge of a poisonous cloud of gas, calmly put your gas masks on and walk, don’t run. And walk out of the cloud at a right angle to the wind direction. 00.15.21 Tim Samuels Inside, what was the heart of the Soviet’s chemical weapons production. 00.15.28 Tim Samuels This part of the huge complex has been idle since the 1950s but the toxic chemical agents, the arsenic and lewisite, have penetrated deep into the building’s walls. 00.15.47 Tim Samuels Immediately you’re struck by an acrid smell in the air, a bit like burnt rubber and that’s with a gas mask on. 00.15.59 Igor Tsarikovsky Voice over These units are all single-storey and have minimal levels of contamination. So they’re almost clean. There is only an excess of arsenic here, that’s all. 00.16.15 Tim Samuels Just an excess of arsenic, a poison of choice since the Middle Ages. Still, not enough to tempt Igor into wearing his Soviet-issue gas mask. 00.16.26 Tim Samuels Given the fact that this was a chemical weapons plant, do you not have to wear this as well? 00.16.37 Igor Tsarikovsky Voice over According to the rules I must carry it as a means of personal defence. It should be ready in case I need it. But there’s no such need now and it’s pointless. The air here is clean and acceptable. 00.17.03 Tim Samuels Clean and acceptable if your nostrils are exposed to arsenic on a daily basis. 00.17.12 Tim Samuels But in Dzerzhinsk the attitude of almost anyone in power is denial; there is no problem here. What’s all the fuss about? 00.17.23 Tim Samuels Do you think that Dzerzhinsk is a polluted city? 00.17.30 Aston IGOR TSARIKOVSKY Chief Engineer Kaproloctam Chemical Factory Voice over I wouldn’t say that the environment in Dzerzhinsk is bad. We have competent bodies, which can provide data on the environmental situation. I think that a lot was done for environmental safety during the times of Perestroika. 00.17.58 Tim Samuels The denial goes wider than Dzerzhinsk. Russia is blind to its mounting environmental blight. One of President’s Putin’s first moves was to axe the country’s only environmental protection agency. 00.18.11 Tim Samuels And if no one at the Kremlin cares why should the people, who’ve been conditioned by decades of central rule. 00.18.19 Tim Samuels Then it’s all brought home with a chemical spill in the heart of a neighbourhood. 00.18.31 Aston SERGEI DITATIEV Director Regional Centre of Ecological Monitoring Voice over There was a container filled with tetra ethyl. It started leaking and over forty litres poured out. It produced a concentration of poison in the air, seventeen thousand times over the acceptable limit. 00.19.03 Tim Samuels Stolen from a local factory and stored in a garage, tetra ethyl, a leaded petrol additive, also happens to be highly flammable. 00.19.12 Tim Samuels Is it, is it dangerous for you to be smoking, whilst we’re here? 00.19.19 Sergei Ditatiev Voice over It was some time ago and I hope that it’s all been blown away. So it’s ok to smoke now. 00.19.28 Tim Samuels One thing not in the air round here is media freedom. These residents were badly affected, not that anyone got to hear about it. 00.19.40 Woman Voice over There was such a strong smell of gas and everybody started falling ill. It was impossible to go out. The authorities tell us it isn’t dangerous for our health but they come here wearing gas masks. We demanded that some measures be taken but nothing has been done. We called our TV station, they did come but the story was stopped from being broadcast. 00.20.19 Tim Samuels There is one place where the realities of living in Dzerzhinsk cannot be censored. 00.20.25 Tim Samuels Head past the factories back to the village cemetery, where Serafim had shown me his daughter’s grave. 00.20.33 Music 00.20.37 Tim Samuels I’d been meaning to go back. Something there had caught my eye. 00.20.43 Music 00.20.46 Tim Samuels The number of graves for people who’ve died under forty is astonishing. 00.20.50 Music 00.20.57 Tim Samuels Who knows what the average life expectancy is in Dzerzhinsk; official figures don’t exist. Environmental campaigners say a man in this city can expect to live to forty-two. A woman forty-seven. 00.21.09 Music 00.21.13 Tim Samuels Local doctors say most die in their fifties. 00.21.17 Music 00.21.23 Tim Samuels So often in Dzerzhinsk it’s easy to push the pollution to the back of your mind. But not here. 00.21.41 Tim Samuels The young are the most vulnerable; their bodies least adapted to cope with the poisonous environment. 00.21.55 Guitar lesson 00.22.09 Tim Samuels Anya is not a well fourteen year old. Her mother knows she might be living on borrowed time. 00.22.19 Tim Samuels For six years she’s suffered from a mystery blood disease, which could yet turn fatal. 00.22.32 Svetlana Torchinskaya Voice over Lesson’s over, time for your injection. 00.22.40 Tim Samuels The daily injections are a medical stab in the dark. 00.22.44 Tim Samuels Doctors are baffled by her condition. They’ve tried treating it like a cancer, with no success. 00.22.51 Anya having injection 00.23.11 Tim Samuels Something to do with her lymphatic system, they now think. 00.23.19 Tim Samuels At least the injections alleviate some of Anya’s symptoms. They stop her body turning blue; keep the spots off her face. 00.23.29 Anya Voice over I’ve had sixty, no seventy already, another a hundred and ten to go. Not bad really. 00.23.37 Svetlana Torchinskaya Voice over You’re right. Not bad. That’s all for now. 00.23.49 Tim Samuels What do you think caused Anya’s illnesses? 00.23.57 Aston SVETLANA TORCHINSKAYA Voice over The environment. My health is worse than my mother’s. Anya’s health and mine are the same although I’m thirty- six and she is fourteen. I don’t know what it’ll be like when she’s thirty-six. 00.24.18 Tim Samuels Do you feel angry towards the authorities here? Do you think that they, they could and should have done more for you? 00.24.27 Svetlana Torchinskaya Voice over Yes, they only take action when a disaster strikes and are mainly concerned about production targets. Human beings are the cheapest commodity. We’re not even that angry, we’ve got used to it. We have to cope and pretend it’s a normal life. 00.24.59 Tim Samuels Do you think you’ll stay in Dzerzhinsk? 00.25.03 Anya Voice over For sure. I’ll have to, whether I want to or not. 00.25.08 Tim Samuels Illness aside, Anya strives to live like a regular teenager. Her bedroom’s a shrine to Britney Spears and Ricky Martin. 00.25.18 Tim Samuels Do you think that Britney will ever play a concert in Dzerzhinsk? 00.25.24 Anya Voice over I doubt she’ll ever come here. I doubt she’s ever heard of this city. 00.25.29 Tim Samuels What about Ricky Martin? 00.25.34 Anya Voice over The same. Although I’d like it. 00.25.45 Tim Samuels Life may be cheap in Dzerzhinsk but it’s still remarkable that the head of the city’s maternity hospital receives sixty dollars a month. And he pays for the clinic’s soap himself. 00.25.59 Tim Samuels Operating in a theatre, which wouldn’t look out of place in a first World War field hospital, Doctor Muradian fights against the odds to bring life into Dzerzhinsk. 00.26.25 Tim Samuels Once sworn to secrecy, he can now deliver the city’s statistics; far worse than the rest of Russia. 00.26.34 Aston GRACHYA MURADIAN Chief Doctor, Maternity Hospital No. 3 Voice over This year the death rate exceeds the birth rate by two point six times. If, on average, six to eight babies are born every twenty-four hours, fifteen to eighteen people die. The situation is simply catastrophic. 00.26.57 Tim Samuels What impact is the environment and the pollution here having on people’s health? 00.27.07 Dr Grachya Muradian Voice over There are changes in hormonal and immune systems. This is an obvious impact of the pollution. The birth pattern has also changed and there’s been an increase in inflammatory diseases after deliveries. Defects in hormonal and immune systems will have an impact on the whole life and it’s a big problem. 00.27.38 Tim Samuels There are limits to what any doctor can achieve especially in Dzerzhinsk. Contending not just with the pollution but the social problems rampant in today’s Russia, where many have lost their way. 00.27.56 Dr Grachya Muradian Voice over A twenty-three year old pregnant woman was brought to our hospital suffering from acute alcohol poisoning. Her liver had already started to disintegrate and smelled of acetone. We had to work hard to save her. We managed but her baby had died even before she’d arrived at the hospital. 00.28.35 Tim Samuels The suit’s been dusted off; it’s a big day for Serafim. 00.28.39 Tim Samuels He’s come to the Ecological Monitoring Centre to receive the results of the samples taken from his garden. 00.28.50 Tim Samuels Final tests looking for dangerous chemicals, like DDT, a notorious pesticide banned in America thirty years ago but made locally until recently. 00.29.01 Tim Samuels And vinyl chloride, used to make plastics, yet deadly in high doses. 00.29.25 Sergei Ditatiev Voice over Results of your soil analysis show the presence of nitrates two point five times over the norm and of DDT six times over. 00.29.49 Sergei Ditatiev Voice over The air analysis showed a maximum permissible concentration of vinyl chloride. This is bad. There’s a phenol concentration three hundred times over the norm in your well water. Such a high level of phenol should worry you. 00.30.24 Seraphim Krivin Voice over We’ve been drinking this water for forty years! 00.30.39 Tim Samuels You say you’ve taken evidence of pollution to the authorities; what reaction did you get from them? 00.30.51 Aston SERGEI DITATIEV Director Regional Centre of Ecological Monitoring Voice over Last April we measured a level of vinyl chloride at the central square eleven times over the limit. We turned to the local authorities, to the Federal Ecological Centre and to the Prosecutor’s office. We got no reply. We also revealed biphenyl polychlorates in a well, which supplies water to the city. They belong to a group of dioxins. Again, we approached the local and regional authorities about it but again they didn’t reply. 00.31.54 Tim Samuels If the director seems to have a particularly solemn tone when talking about the town’s pollution, it’s understandable. 00.32.09 Sergei Ditatiev Voice over Four weeks ago my wife died. She worked in a laboratory, which deals with vinyl chloride. She was the fifth one to have died from cancer at that place and it’s all because of vinyl chloride. 00.32.31 Tim Samuels The air may be riddled with toxins but in somewhere like the city centre, where the only sign might be a slight burning in the throat, it’s easy to forget you’re in a place whose pollution has put it in the record books. 00.32.46 Tim Samuels And all around, life does go on. 00.32.51 Music 00.32.57 Tim Samuels A drizzling Saturday in Dzerzhinsk and Dr Muradian’s son is getting married at the registry office. 00.33.02 Music 00.33.07 Tim Samuels As one bride goes in another comes out; it’s something of a wedding conveyor belt here. Twelve an hour. 00.33.14 Music 00.33.22 Tim Samuels No nonsense nuptials; each service is allocated five minutes and a distinctly Russian soundtrack. 00.33.28 Music/wedding ceremony 00.34.10 Tim Samuels A toast to their futures and then off to the Eternal Flame, which seems to have weathered the downpour. A local tradition for newlyweds. 00.34.25 Tim Samuels Doctor Muradian has an infectious zest for life, which refuses to be dampened by Dzerzhinsk. 00.34.37 Tim Samuels In fact, like many here, he’s actually proud of where he lives, almost defensive. And don’t mention a certain entry in the Guinness Book of Records. 00.34.50 Dr Grachya Muradian Voice over Whatever is written there has no relevance whatsoever to me and my family. We live in an environmentally contaminated place but we like it here and we’ve learned how to survive. From Soviet times we have a rich experience of how to live in tough conditions. 00.35.09 Music 00.35.27 Tim Samuels Dzerzhinsk is more famous for its nitrates than nightlife. 00.35.32 Tim Samuels The main square has an eerie feel about it. 00.35.39 Tim Samuels But then I could have sworn I saw flashing lights at the Ecological Monitoring Centre; the place where Serafim’s vegetables were tested. Little did I know I’d stumbled across an ambush. 00.35.50 Music 00.35.54 Tim Samuels An ambush by middle-aged women, who ominously tell me this city has a dearth of men. 00.36.00 Music 00.36.02 Tim Samuels And who, no amount of clapping can keep at bay when Casanova’s playing on the jukebox. 00.36.07 Music 00.36.28 Tim Samuels Tempting as it may be, not everyone addresses the lack of men folk by getting on down at the Ecological Monitoring Centre. 00.36.35 Radio 00.36.38 Tim Samuels After her husband died in his forties of cancer, Olga went looking for love on-line. She posted herself on a Russian brides website. 00.36.48 Tim Samuels An architect by training, she designed Doctor Muradian’s clinic, he delivered her daughter. 00.36.56 Tim Samuels Intelligent and discerning, Olga wasn’t overtly impressed by the replies she received. 00.37.08 Aston OLGA ONISHENKO Voice over The second one was Swedish; fifty years old and never married. When I saw his photo, I was shocked. He looked like an albino orang-utan. This part was hollowed, this was pronounced and he was plain white. To top it all, it was a picture of him sitting behind a computer, in profile. Terrible. 00.37.45 Tim Samuels Her foray into cyberspace was short-lived. Olga now scours the lonely-hearts ads in the newspaper. 00.37.55 Olga Onishenko Voice over Jim Jones, fifty-seven years old. But he’s looking for a girl not for a woman. Lots of men are looking for girls. And this one wants an a hundred and twenty-five kilogram one. I don’t fit either demand. 00.38.18 Tim Samuels Olga, what impact does all the pollution and the chemicals in this town have on libido levels? 00.38.28 Olga Onishenko Voice over That’s really interesting. The environmental situation in our town has affected women positively and men negatively. Women are beautiful and sensual, whereas men have problems. Our men are poor sex performers. This is a real tragedy for our women. It’s a chore for them to drag their husbands to bed. 00.39.02 Tim Samuels Do you think that your daughter will find someone in Dzerzhinsk? 00.39.13 Olga Onishenko Voice over I hope God will save us from that. I don’t think she will. I don’t even think she will find anyone in Russia. 00.39.43 Tim Samuels Serafim has his test results from the garden and a renewed sense of purpose. 00.39.57 Tim Samuels He’s also hatching a plan of action. He’s decided to take the authorities to court. 00.40.06 Serafim Krivin Voice over They’re destroying people by killing the environment. It’s genocide. We must try to achieve something at least. 00.40.23 Tim Samuels Other tests results have also arrived showing that his own health has deteriorated and recommending an extravagant dioxin-busting diet for him to follow. 00.40.39 Serafim Krivin Voice over Dairy products, greens, dried fruits, corn, potatoes, pears, bananas, kiwis, pumpkin seeds, mushrooms, caviar and bilberries. Half of these I shall never see. You can’t pick mushrooms here because they’re pure poison. I can manage pumpkin seeds. Kiwi fruit I have seen twice at the market and that’s all. I’ve tried bananas a few times and that’s it. 00.41.15 Tim Samuels If nothing else a lifetime under Soviet rule has left Serafim with a sense of realism. 00.41.25 Serafim Krivin Voice over We have no choice. We will carry on drinking and eating as before. My wife will prepare food from the same vegetables and supplies. 00.41.41 Tim Samuels As for his wife Viera, she’s developed her own feline- based test to see if the food’s ok. 00.41.50 Viera Krivin Voice over What’s all the fuss about? He’s afraid but I’m not. You never die twice. Anyway, the cat eats it and it’s still alive. 00.42.06 Music 00.42.10 Tim Samuels The lid’s been lifted on this secret city revealing a people choked by the chemical industries they depend on. There’s little inclination and less money, for change. 00.42.20 Music 00.42.21 Tim Samuels Serafim will be waiting until the cows come home for his letter to get a reply. But for others there’s almost a blackly comic pride in the place, especially for a doctor who everyday brings life into this poisoned city 00.42.33 Music 00.42.41 Dr Grachya Muradian Voice over A mobile gas chamber filled with people is going round in circles before heading to a mass grave. After one circle, the driver still hears noises inside so he makes another circuit. But the people inside are still alive. So he pumps in more gas and goes round again but to no avail. He stops, opens the door and sees the people inside playing cards. ‘Shut the door, there’s a draught’. ‘Where on earth are you people from?’ he says. ‘We’re from Dzerzhinsk’. 00.43.23 End music 00.43.33 Voice over You can comment on tonight’s programme by visiting our web site at: www.bbc.co.uk/correspondent Credits 00.43.33 Reporter TIM SAMUELS Camera STEFAN THISSEN VT Editor BOYD NAGLE Dubbing Mixer PHITZ HEARNE Graphic Design STEVE ENGLAND Production Team ALEXANDRA CAMERON SARAH EVA MARTHA O’SULLIVAN AGNES TEEK Production Manager JANE WILLEY Unit Manager SUSAN CRIGHTON Film Research NICK DODD Web Producer ANDREW JEFFREY Research OLEG YURIEV DIMITRI LEVASHOV Picture Editor HUGH WILLIAMS Directed and Produced by EWA EWART Deputy Editor DAVID BELTON 00.43.43 Voice over Next week – Israel’s secret weapon. The nuclear whistle blower, the bomb and the wall of silence. That’s Correspondent at seven fifteen next Sunday. 00.43.55 CORRESPONDENT 00.43.56 Editor KAREN O’CONNOR © BBC MMIII 00.44.02 End BBC Correspondent 1 1