Zelensky: The making of a president

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

For weeks Volodymyr Zelensky has been leading his nation against a devastating invasion by Russia. As Ukraine continues to resist one of the most powerful armies in the world, President Zelensky has been lauded as the man of this moment. Yet the man who had spent most of his life telling jokes was a political novice when first elected. The BBC’s correspondent in Ukraine, Jonah Fisher, first met Volodymyr Zelensky in January 2019 when he was known as a comedian and actor. He charts Zelensky's incredible journey from comedian to internationally acclaimed wartime leader of his country.

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0:00.0	I had this secret. I robbed banks in my spare time.
0:06.3	Lives less ordinary from the BBC World Service.
0:09.6	This is not a good thing to do because police are after you.
0:14.8	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:19.7	Voice.
0:22.7	What should I give?
0:23.9	What did you look?
0:25.3	A voice that a couple of months ago few recognized is now unmistakable.
0:30.7	The war of Russia is not only the war against Ukraine.
0:35.2	Its meaning is much wider.
0:37.4	Russia is trying to defeat the freedom of all people in Europe, of all the people in the world.
0:43.5	Vladimir Zelensky, Ukraine's president, has led his country's fight back against Russia's invasion.
0:51.9	Comforting the war's victims.
0:53.7	Be raiding Ukraine's enemies, demanding more from her allies.
1:01.1	The President Biden, I wish you to be the leader of the world.
1:07.1	Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of this.
1:13.1	Yes!
1:15.1	A war that was expected to last days is now into its third month.
1:20.6	Russia's advance has stalled and in places it's been pushed back.
1:26.4	President Zelensky is now being lauded as the man of this moment.
1:31.8	I think your leadership has been extraordinary.
1:34.3	But it wasn't always like this.
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