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Sunday Feature: Shostakovich and the Battle for Babi Yar

The Radio 3 Documentary by BBC

Dec 13, 202244:18Society & Culture

Dmitri Shostakovich’s Thirteenth Symphony was inspired by an unflinching poem about the ‘Holocaust of Bullets’ at Babi Yar in Ukraine, one of the biggest massacres of World War Two. Lucy Ash pieces together the events le...

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Sunday Feature: Shostakovich and the Battle for Babi Yar is an episode from The Radio 3 Documentary by BBC. Dmitri Shostakovich’s Thirteenth Symphony was inspired by an unflinching poem about the ‘Holocaust of Bullets’ at Babi Yar in Ukrain...

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