Lessons from Heartbreak House

Near the fishing village of Crail in Fife, Victoria Donovan of the University of St Andrews finds an unlikely relic of the Cold War.

The Joint Services School for Linguists taught Russian to National Service conscripts including Alan Bennett and Dennis Potter with a staff including a number of colourful Russian emigres and defectors pining for their homeland.

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One of the New Generation Thinkers 2017. New Generation Thinkers is an annual competition run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select researchers at the start of their careers who can turn their fascinating research into stimulating television and radio programmes.