Russia -- The Wild East

Last Edited: 19-Sep-2019
A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.

Date Title Cast Parameters
18-Apr-2011 to
20-May-2011
Russia -- The Wild East

  1. Rurik, founder of Rus
  2. A Church for the State
  3. Prince Igor and the Polovtsians
  4. The Mongol Yoke
  5. The New Capital
    omnibus 1
  6. Ivan the Terrible
  7. Enter the Romanovs
  8. East into Siberia
  9. Peter the Great
  10. A Window on the West
    omnibus 2
  11. Catherine, Lover and Reformer
  12. Rebellion and Punishment
  13. Napoleon Marches East
  14. Decembrist Revolt
  15. Defeat and Disaffection
    omnibus 3
  16. The Downtrodden Serfs
  17. The Murder of the Tsar
  18. Seeds of Revolution
  19. Censorship and Suppression
  20. The Last Tsar
    omnibus 4
  21. Too Little, Too Late
  22. The Centre Weakens
  23. The Year 1917 Dawns
  24. Lenin's Return
  25. Revolution!
    omnibus 5 
Martin Sixsmith
Producers: Adam Fowler, Anna Scott-Brown



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11-Jul-2011 to
12-Aug-2011
Russia -- The Wild East, Series 2

  1. Twelve Hours of Democracy
  2. Murder of the Royal Family
  3. Terror
  4. The People's Revolt
  5. The Death of Lenin and Rise of Stalin
    omnibus 2-1
  6. Collectivisation
  7. Industrialisation
  8. Socialist Realism
  9. Show Trials
  10. The Faustian Pact
    omnibus 2
  11. The Great Patriotic War
  12. Redemption through Blood
  13. Victory at Stalingrad
  14. The Spoils of War
  15. The Iron Curtain
    omnibus 3
  16. The Doctor's Plot
  17. The Secret Speech/Scramble for Power
  18. The Rise and Fall of Khrushchev
  19. The Brezhnev Years
  20. The Shape of Things to Come
    omnibus 4
  21. Gorbachev vs Yeltsin
  22. The Moscow Coup
  23. Brave New World?
  24. Return of the Fist
  25. The Lessons of History
    omnibus 5
Martin Sixsmith
Producers: Adam Fowler, Anna Scott-Brown



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