"Preview: WARTIME MOSCOW: Author Alan Philps ('The Red Hotel') relates the sad tale of the love affair between the London Telegraph correspondent Charlton and his Russian translator, Natalia. More later."
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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1941 Moscow
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| 0:30.7 | This is John Batchelor, speaking with the author Alan Phillips, |
| 0:34.6 | his new book, The Red Hotel, Moscow, 1941. |
| 0:39.7 | This is the Metropolitan Hotel, the untold story, where Stalin, the Stalinist, kept all the |
| 0:46.4 | correspondents covering the Second War in Russia, all kept in one hotel with translators, |
| 0:52.9 | watched perfectly all the time by the authorities, |
| 0:59.1 | and never permitted to print anything they knew that wasn't state-dictated. |
| 1:04.5 | The Red Hotel, in this particular detail, Mrs. Alan Phillips telling me about a man named A.T. Charlton, |
| 1:12.9 | who was the very knowledgeable, |
| 1:15.4 | extremely careful correspondent |
| 1:17.3 | for the London Telegraph |
| 1:19.4 | in Russia since the revolution |
| 1:22.3 | and the Civil War of the 1920s, |
| 1:25.8 | falling in love with a young woman named Natalia, who was Russian |
| 1:31.1 | and his translator and helpmate, love of his life, and Alan tells a very sad story, true |
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