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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He wanted to repudiate.
the Russian language in a way, but he couldn't get rid of that because it ha it was it was such a
A testimony of his
Of his past and his love of Murakami.
So how could you possibly
Get rid of that.
Yes, that was I was visiting some people I know and uh they had very high ceilings, very small flat, very high ceilings.
And I pointed up and said, What what are those books on the top shelf?
And they said, Oh, those are those are our parents' Soviet editions of classics.
The the sort of sense of these books that had been so scrimped and saved for by their parents or grandparents and the Soviet Union
that there is something hard won about that, there is something precious about that and you you can't just throw that stuff away.
So it's a really, really complicated picture.
I mean my teacher once said to me
If you want to get people talking at a Ukrainian party, just ask about language and everybody will disagree.
So
you're not just learning Ukrainian, you're entering into
a sort of linguistic territory and landscape that is very swiftly changing and is very up for debate and
Is very is not stable.
They have you might have noticed, Helen, that I'm wearing a tiny bracelet that's got it's got the letter Yee on it.
Um it's very, very subtle.
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