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Soviet science and feeding Britain at war

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Simon Ings, author of Stalin and the Scientists, describes how the Bolshevik leaders intervened in scientific research in the USSR. Meanwhile, food writer William Sitwell tells the story of a man who battled to bring supplies into Britain during the era of rationing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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That was Simon Ings discussing

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science in the Soviet era. What I like people to realise is quite how well the British cope during

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rationing. In a way, we kind of relished it. I think it's one of the reasons why we're never going

1:06.9

to be a sort of naturally brilliant food culture, because when we were challenged with living on the ration, the British people just said, yeah, we will, and we'll love it.

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And that was William Sittwell on the British people's experience of rationing during the

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Second World War.

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