Free Thinking - Greece & Russia
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2015
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Anne McElvoy assesses reports that members of the new Greek government are rediscovering age-old links between Greece and Russia. With Roderic Lynne, former British ambassador to Moscow; Mary Dejevsky, Professor Vassilis Fouskis and Spyros Economides. Plus as Sheffield Theatres begin a season looking back at the work of Sarah Kane, Director Daniel Evans discusses her writing and also a review of Indian Summers - Channel 4's new costume drama about the end of colonial rule with Preti Taneja and Nick Lloyd.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, it's a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that at some level of genius. It also helps |
| 0:21.2 | that it's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream |
| 0:26.1 | van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC sounds. |
| 0:32.2 | Tonight, politics and personal lives collide in the final years of the Raj. I'll be previewing Channel 4's Indian Summers with a historian of the British in India and an expert on post-colonial literature and drama of quite a different kind. I don't want to stay. I don't want to stay. I want you to leave. If love would come... Let it happen. No. It's leaving me behind. |
| 0:54.4 | No. |
| 0:54.7 | No. |
| 0:55.3 | Yes. |
| 0:56.0 | No, yes. |
| 0:57.2 | No, yes. |
| 0:58.8 | Sarah Kane was a playwright who relished experimentation and divided audiences and critics. |
| 1:04.5 | As a festival of her work opens in Sheffield, I talked to the man, bringing the work of a talent who died so young back to the stage. |
| 1:11.5 | But first, two crises have been on the minds of European leaders in the past couple of weeks, |
| 1:16.6 | the expansion of Russia's backing for separatists in Ukraine, |
| 1:19.7 | and battles for control of the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, |
| 1:23.7 | as well as the election of the left-wing populist Siritsa Party in Greece. |
| 1:28.7 | The first diplomatic call made by Greece's new leader Alexis Cyprus was to the Russian ambassador, |
| 1:34.4 | and a series of leaked emails has suggested connections between the Greek party and the Russian nationalist, |
| 1:40.2 | Alexander Dugin, among other backers of the Russian separatist movement in Ukraine. |
| 1:45.1 | The ties between Russia and Greece are underpinned by their Orthodox religious heritages, |
| 1:50.4 | but also alliances stretching back to the 19th century battles for power in the Aegean |
| 1:55.5 | and resistance to the Ottoman Empire. |
| 1:58.2 | So would Greece and Russia stand to gain by reviving old links? |
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