Arena - Season 1 Episode 175 : Here They Kill People for It

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Arena - Season 1 Episode 175 : Here They Kill People for It
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Title:Arena - Season 1 Episode 175 : Here They Kill People for It
Genre: Documentary
Air Date: 1982-02-02
Season Number: 1
Episodes Number: 175
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Overview
Osip Mandelstam, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, died in a prison camp somewhere in Siberia in the 1930s: no one knows precisely how or when. He was imprisoned not for his political activity but for writing a poem. All we know of the life of this remarkable man comes from two classic books by his widow, Nadezhda Mandelstam : Hope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned. In tonight's Arena, poet and novelist D. M. Thomas , author of The White Hotel, traces the the career of this great lyric poet, with the help of Joseph Brodsky , exiled Russian poet, and Nadezhda Mandelstam. filmed secretly in her Moscow flat in 1973 and seen here for the first time on British tv.
Seasons List
  • Season 1 (687 episode) - October 01, 1975