Kultural Capsule

When Russia invaded Ukraine, an artist from the group known as the "sixtiers" Шістидесятники Lyubov Panchenko commenced a hunger strike. Her home town of Bucha became a killing field for invading orcs from the north. I refrain from using a title of a country that has been nothing but thieves since autumn of 1671, when they changed their nation's name from Moscovia to Rus'.

In 1986 the world first learnt just how things with nuclear power stations could go wrong. This is a piece that wrote for the Kyiv Weekly on the 20th anniversary of that disaster. It is both an Authentic Life Story and a Kultural Capsule.

I first produced a Kultural Capsule for Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio in 2011. This is an expanded version produced using better hardware than I had long ago, with a much improved knowledge on my part regarding sound production. It gives a glimpse into the like of Ukraine's bard and poet Taras Shevchenko and the American-British actor Ira Aldridge.