Kataryna Wolczuk
Polish academic Kataryna Wolczuk presents a personal view of contraception, women's rights and the importance of calendars in her country - during and after communism.
Passports, garden chairs, cars or contraceptives. Four essayists from former Warsaw Pact nations reflect on the changing use and meaning of an apparently banal object - an object that unlocks a wider story about how daily life in their country was transformed by the dramatic events of 1989.
In today's programme the Polish academic Kataryna Wolczuk presents a personal view of contraception, women's rights and the importance of calendars in Poland, both before and after the collapse of communism.
Producer: Julia Johnson.
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- Fri 13 Nov 200922:15BBC Radio 3
- Fri 13 Aug 201023:00BBC Radio 3
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