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Comedian and Russophile Viv Groskop explores how a century of revolutionary comedy shaped Russia's national psyche.
The Russian Revolution unleashed a brand of humour that continues to this day. In this two-part series, comedian and Russophile Viv Groskop explores a century of revolutionary comedy and asks how it continues to shape the national psyche.
The series will rediscover comedy of the Revolution: Bolshevik satire, early Communist cartoons and jokes about Lenin, as writers, satirists and comedians recall the jokes and cartoons shared by their parents and grandparents.
Producer: Georgia Catt.
Last on
Mon 22 Jan 201816:00
BBC Radio 4
Broadcasts
- Tue 10 Oct 201711:30BBC Radio 4
- Mon 22 Jan 201816:00BBC Radio 4
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