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Episode 3

The EssayFreedom
Episode 3 of 5

Ukrainian novelist Andrei Kourkov - famed for his often surreal and blackly comic evocation of post-Soviet reality - reflects on the meaning of freedom in his home country both before and after the collapse of Communism.

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Wed 26 Nov 200823:00
BBC Radio 3

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