Ukraine: Music and Revolution

Feature documentaries on Ukraine, politics and culture

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BBC World Service 2004-6

• radio
• USSR
• revolution
• activism
• politics
• language
• Ukraine
• Russia
• Vopli Vidopliassova
• folk
• rock
• Chernobyl
• radio

Three feature documentaries for the BBC World Service Masterpiece series looking at the ‘Orange Revolution’ in Ukraine, and the role that music and language played in the political realities on the ground.

Back in December 2004, as I was following the farceAndrew Wilson is one the best watchers of the post-Soviet world. See his terrifying revelations about the art of the fake election here. of the Ukrainian Presidential elections online,