Florian Stammler took a group of the BBC to his field site in Yamal, West Siberia, for a programme on herders and the gas industry. It was a challenging trip where we had planned much more than could be achieved in the end, but the programme that you can listen here still highlights some of the crucial questions. Since the time they get on radio and TV is really short, they’ve also put some related stuff on their website, one programme about the ‘dead railway’, Stalin’s GULAG project 501 that should connect the Polar Urals region with the Yenisey region (where the big Norilsk Nickel smelter is) back in the 1950s. There will be also a TV programme with a slightly different orientation on BBC World news in early June. Comments welcome!
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I look forward to the program!
I shall post a link to the TV programme webpage here once I know when it will be on-air.
Florian Stammler
Here are some more links to the material on this topic from the bbc website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18116112 on Stalin’s industrialisation plans and Gulag
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17956108 on herders and the industry
Here is the link to the TV programme times on this topic
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jyzvj/broadcasts/upcoming
feedback here on the blog is warmly welcome!
This is the online link for the programme:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01jyzvj/Our_World_The_Edge_of_the_Earth/
And here finally a photogallery with some pictures from that trip. There are some mistakes in the captions as these were done by the BBC under time pressure, but all in all it’s alright
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-18367706
Какая та маленькая часть этих материалов была переведена на русский язык тоже, здесь можно посмотреть:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/russia/2012/06/120607_stalin_deadly_railway.shtml