Twenty Minutes

The Lucky Thirteen

Saturday 19 August 2006 19:25-19:45 (Radio 3)

Yevgeny Yevtushenko recalls the impact of his controversial poem Babi Yar in the Soviet Union, and how it became the genesis for Shostakovich's 13th Symphony.

Read by John Rowe.

Duration:

20 minutes

Twenty Minutes

Episode and Playlist Information

• 26 Aug 06 Nabokov's 'Music'
• 25 August 2006
• 24 August 2006
• 23 August 2006
• 22 August 2006
• 21 August 2006
• 19 Aug 06 The Lucky Thirteen
• 18 August 2006
• 17 August 2006
• 16 August 2006