Russia
Gayle Souter-Brown: healing landscapes
Landscape and urban design consultant, founder of Greenstone Design, and author of Landscape and Urban Design for Health and Well-Being: Using Healing, Sensory and Therapeutic Gardens Audio
Margaret MacMillan on the First World War
The eminent historian Professor Margaret MacMillan explores the origins of the First World War, and the contemporary parallels to what happened a century ago. With Kate Hunter in the chair, this… Audio
Alexander Litvinenko's co-author on UK inquiry
The UK government has announced that a public inquiry will be held into the death of the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. Mr Litvinenko, a former KGB officer who became a British… Audio
Warnings that Ukraine is on the brink of Civil War
Correspondent Lucian Kim who has covered the Russia and eastern Europe for the past 2 decades. He is reporting from Kiev. Audio
Feature Guest - Masha Gessen
Russian journalist and author Masha Gessen, says she is been forced to leave Russia because of the government's new "homosexual propoganda laws". Masha Gessen is a mother of three with her same sex… Audio
Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint
Wayne discusses the implications of the Russian initiative to get Syria to agree to surrender its chemical weapon stockpile. He also takes a critical look at mainstream media coverage of the Syrian… Audio
Feature Guest - Mike Lerner
Filmmaker Mike Lerner spent six months with members of the Russian feminist art collective, Pussy Riot as they fought charges of hooliganism and religious hatred for their performance of a "punk… Audio
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
Roger Smith explores the life and works of the 'Russian Brahms'. Audio
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Thomas Goss looks at Prokofiev's return to Soviet Russia after a successful career in Paris. Audio