Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Russia in Five Babushka Dolls

Vanora Bennett looks at five influential women in Russia's history.

Radio 4,5 episodes

Episodes

ListGrid

Series 1
Pussy Riot
Vanora Bennett's final Babushka doll is a member of activist group Pussy Riot.
13 Oct 2017,15 mins
Series 1
Valentina Tereshkova
Vanora Bennett on Valentina Tereshkova, who in 1963 became the first woman in space.
12 Oct 2017,15 mins
Series 1
Ayn Rand
The Russian-born writer whose influence is most evident in her adopted home of the USA.
11 Oct 2017,15 mins
Series 1
Nadezhda Alliluyeva
Vanora Bennett profiles Stalin's wife, born in 1901 in the Tsarist Russian south.
10 Oct 2017,15 mins
Series 1
Catherine the Great
Vanora Bennett looks at one of the longest-lasting rulers of the European Enlightenment.
09 Oct 2017,15 mins