Episode 3
Elena doesn't want to join, but she can only go to college if she is a member of the Young Communist League. Read by Sian Thomas.
Elena Gorokhova has strong doubts about joining the Young Communist League but she knows she can't go to college unless she is a member, and she longs to read English at Leningrad University.
She loves the romanticism of literature and yearns for a dacha with white gauzy curtains; she wishes her family discussed etiquette instead of lugging buckets of water to beds of tomatoes and dill.
And then her Aunt Mila arrives from Minsk.
Read by Sian Thomas
A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4.
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- Wed 12 Aug 201514:45BBC Radio 4 Extra
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