Charlotte Higgins
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451 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
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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And the person on the other end of this communication just sort of nods as if nothing important is happening and just
Yeah, exactly.
It just interacts with you completely normally.
And that somehow this thing has worked.
I I will say also in Ukraine it's uh one does get complimented, which is thank you know, which is one thing that keeps me going is actually
On the h you know, people really appreciate that you're having a go at their ridiculously hard language.
Yes.
Hello Olya.
It's really, really lovely to hear you speaking so beautifully.
In English.
I've never heard you speak so much English.
Yes, it has, and a lot of previously Russian speaking Ukrainians have switched to speaking Ukrainian during this period of full scale invasion.
And th and the the politicization of of language has many historical roots.
It's to do at least partly with the Russian repression of the Ukrainian language, both under the SARS and also under the Soviet Union.
So Ukrainian was relegated into being this kind of folksy
peasanty kind of language that was sort of faintly comical.
But actually Ukraine does have an incredibly rich culture and literature that we don't know about here particularly 'cause our racks of penguin classics are not sadly filled with translations from the Ukrainian.
But in the context of the full scale invasion, one of the
one of the extraordinary and absurd uh and perverse things that Putin claimed was that he was rescuing the Russian speaking population of Ukraine.
Well that looked
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