Pussy Riot and other Russian rebels

The History Hour

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4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Max Pearson presents a compilation of this week's Witness History programmes from the BBC World Service.

You'll hear the story of how a protest led by the punk band Pussy Riot in one of Moscow's main cathedrals led to a trial which made the news inside Russia and around the world.

Then, historian Robert Service talks about other examples of rebellion, from the time of the Russian empire through to modern day.

Also, the man Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet wanted dead, the most bizarre football match of all time and the African man who travelled across the world to live in the Arctic.

(Photo: Pussy Riot. Credit: Getty Images)

Contributors: Diana Burkot - member of Pussy Riot Robert Service - Professor of Russian History at the University of Oxford Carmen Castillo - wife of Miguel Enriquez who led resistance against Augusto Pichochet Paul Lambert - former Scotland footballer Alan Matarasso - American plastic surgeon Tété-Michel Kpomassie - Arctic explorer

Transcript

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0:00.0	The powers of the dark of the dark are reaching out now steadily and
0:07.4	stealthily all over this world. Find out more at the end of this podcast. Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me
0:24.6	Max Pearson the past brought to life by those who were there. This week, Lying
0:29.2	low, the anti-Pinniche activists in 1970s Chile.
0:33.0	I used to think that every day might be my last.
0:36.4	On the day of the military coup in 1973, I stopped being a university professor and went
0:42.4	into hiding.
0:43.4	Plus we remember the 1990s health scare around silicone breast implants.
0:48.6	And there was only one team in Tallinn, Scotland's World Cup qualifier in Estonia 1996, the game that never happened.
0:56.2	I'm pretty sure when we took the center and they definitely blew the bus on the
1:00.9	game was finished. I'm pretty sure the Scotland fans come on the pitch and start it. blew the against the Russian president Vladimir Putin. The feminist punk band Pussy Riot made
1:15.1	their stand inside Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior. They were protesting
1:19.3	against the church and its support for Putin. One of the members of Pussy Riot that day was
1:24.8	Diana Burcot and she's been speaking to Alex Collins.
1:27.8	It's the morning of the 21st of February 2012.
1:35.0	Diana Burcot, along with a group of women, got up early.
1:38.0	They were members of the all-female performance punk band Pussy Riot.
1:45.0	They were angry with President Putin because they thought he was abusing his power.
1:49.1	They were also protesting about the church's support for him, and they were about to cause a scene.
1:54.0	It's quiet when Diana and the others entered the cathedral.
1:59.0	She remembered seeing a small number of tourists taking pictures,
2:02.0	mainly focusing their lenses on the
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