Start searching for podcasts to advance your language learning skills


Podcasts



Oksana Vasyakina. Steppe song

Duration: 0:36:28

Elizaveta Podkolzina and Yuri Saprykin talk with the poet and writer Oksana Vasyakina about her second novel, The Steppe . The book is dedicated to her trucker father, stigmatized illnesses, and the virus of masculinity that has infected society .

Language: Russian
Topics: LiteratureOksana VasyakinaNovel received the Nose Prize

Maria Nesterenko. How did women's writing begin in Russia?

Duration: 0:38:23

"Shelf" opens a new season of podcasts - and changes the rules a bit . Elizaveta Podkolzina and Lev Oborin are talking to philologist Maria Nesterenko, who has just published her book Roses Without Thorns . Who were the first Russian writers and poetesses, what did they write about and how did they find their way in literature?

Language: Russian
Topics: LiteratureWomenMaria Nesterenkothe 19th centuryRussian Sofa