BBC Wales seem to have made a slew of good programmes recently. Here's another one. Once you realise that the scary Russian leader is a top judo man, then the premise of this programme follows naturally. You get Neil Adams, a top British judo champion, and use that perspective to try and get an insight into Putin's character. And it works really well. Top stuff. (MP3 here)
How could I resist this one? It's got Brezhnev's favourite American TV serial, the inhospitable Central Asian desert, laconic Red Army cowboys and a liberated harem. And cosmonauts. It's about Russia's favourite 'Western' (Eastern really) White Sun of the Desert - a film I would now very much like to see (MP3).
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