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Radio 3,17 Nov 2017,15 mins

SeriesTen Artists that Shook the World

10 Eisenstein

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Ten contemporary cultural specialists look back at the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917 on artists of the time - in film, theatre, poetry, dance and beyond. Writer, composer and silent movie accompanist Neil Brand weighs up propaganda versus artistic invention in the re-enactment of the Revolution at the heart of Eisenstein's classic film October. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture Producer Alison Hindell BBC Cymru Wales.

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