Amanda vickery shostakovich biography
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Leningrad and the Orchestra that Defied Hitler
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ArtsDocumentary hosted by Amanda Vickery and Tom Service, published by BBC in 2015 - English narration
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In August 1942, a concert took place in Leningrad that defies belief.
A year earlier, the Germans had begun the deadliest siege in history which would kill three quarters of a million civilians.
Amanda vickery shostakovich biography
In the midst of the terror, a group of starving musicians assembled to perform Shostakovich's 7th Symphony in what would become a defiant moment in the city's ultimate survival. Historian Amanda Vickery and BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service reveal the extraordinary story of triumph of the human spirit over unspeakable terror.
Amanda shows how Leningrad was simultaneously persecuted by Stalin and Hitler, the 'twin monsters' of the 20th century. Meeting with siege survivors and uncovering diaries and photographs, she reveals the reality of life in Leni