Hello and welcome to a special legacy encore episode.

While we take a short break, we're dipping back into the archive to revisit some of our favourite episodes.

And this is one of Peter's greatest hits.

Well, I've always had a soft spot for Russian history, as listeners will know. And so we recorded

Gorbachev in the past. This is an important year, 26, because there are lots of milestones.

We have the 40th anniversary of the Reykjavik talks where Goropachov met Ronald Reagan for the first time.

It's the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.

And as it just so happens, we are going through a new age of engagement with the success of state of the Soviet Union of Russia

and trying to think about what Russia means for the president of the future.

So I really enjoyed thinking about Gorbachev Afwer,

but I wonder whether you were more sympathetic because of a Pizza Hut advert.

I think that was one of his biggest sales.

And if you want to know why, you will have to listen to the episode.

So I'll let the episode speak for itself.

But before we leave you to that, here's a

quick reminder that the full back catalogue is always there for you to explore. So here we go then,

the life and the legacy of Mikhail Kurvachov. Welcome to a new series of legacy. Across four

episodes, a man loved in the West, but widely

despised in his homeland. Mikhail Sergeovic Gorbachev. 3rd of September 2022, all week,

leaders in the West have been queuing up to pay fond tributes to a man widely seen to have entered the Cold War,

to have saved the planet from nuclear Armageddon.

These past weeks have been very tough.

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