Charlotte Higgins
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451 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Sep
Charlotte Higgins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I went to Ukraine for the first time in September twenty twenty two and at that time I wanted to write one article about the way artists were reflecting on and responding to the war that was unfolding in their country.
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It was even before I went home that I decided I needed to learn some Ukrainian.
I suppose initially I wanted to make a connection with people.
It just to be able to navigate round the city without
been completely helpless.
But yes, there was a part of me that thought maybe I could get good enough to eventually be able to even read a poem in Ukrainian.
poison.
Learning Italian I think perhaps is more of a a world of pleasure, you know, you kind of learn what to order in a restaurant and you know, ice cream and where is the cathedral?
Well, there was all this in Ukraine too, but but a lot about sadness I learnt all these terrible words for drone and rocket and um air raid alarm and bomb shelter.
I mean these are actually necessary words to learn in order to to
To know where to go if there is a a bomb attack.
Um
So everything was inflected by the war.
Before the war I lived in Kiev.
I love this place and I want to live there again.
There's so much sorrow in that sentence.
It's actually quite a grammatically complex sentence as well in Ukrainian.
But yeah, baked into this phrase was the fact that you were actually displaced.
You were very happily settled in Kyiv before the war and
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