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This is Love

The Shelter

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Alex Borovenskiy and Anabell Ramires run a theater in Kyiv, Ukraine. It's called ProEnglish Theatre, and was used as a bomb shelter during World War II. When Russia invaded Ukraine, Alex and Anabell decided to leave their apartment and go to the theater, where they hoped they might be safe. Then a neighbor showed up and asked if she could join them. “This is how it all started. People started coming and coming and coming.” You can watch The Book of Sirens on ProEnglish Theatre’s Facebook page. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. On the night of February 23rd, 2022, Alex Borvensky and Annabel Ramirez hosted a movie night.

0:40.0

Well, we watched Tarantino, the Grand House, right? That was the Grand House.

0:44.4

Yeah. So it was very violent and funny, but very violent. So it was kind of, we were talking

0:51.2

a lot that night about violence.

0:55.0

Alex and Annabelle run a theatre in Kyiv Ukraine, and besides staging plays at the theatre,

1:01.0

they'd put on different kinds of events.

1:04.0

Then we hope on the metro and we came home very late. It was like one, we went to bed at one

1:09.7

and then early in the morning, five a.m. or so, I got a call from our administrator of the theater and she called me and she said basically just two words, Alex, wake up, there is a war, and she hung up.

1:26.0

And next thing I hear explosions.

1:30.0

On February 24th,

1:33.0

Russia invaded Ukraine.

1:35.0

There is this very thick wall of like very thick glass

1:41.0

that separates the 24th of February of last year and you remember all

1:45.8

those times but they seem so unreal these days and everything that we do now seems

1:52.3

so real. We never believed that the war could

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