A Special Friendship of Different Cultures

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.

Ira Aldridge and Taras Shevchenko 

Protest Against Russia's Aggression

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'.

Lyubov Panchenko - Art and Design

38th Anniversary of the Chornobyl Nuclear Catastrophe

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.

She Watched it Burn

The Battle of Easter 

A Song of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen

Obituary

Stepan Ilkovych Khmara

About Things Ukrainian

I've been producing these segments for Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio for many years. I originally conceived the title and theme in early 2010 a number of months after having lived in Ukraine for over a decade. I will cover topics such as art in its different forms, plastic and performing forms. I will explore moments of Ukrainian history, literature and the individuals involved. I have always loved many different genres of music, and will explore the individuals who create music and introduce listeners to their works. If it's Ukrainian I will cover it, regardless of where on the face of this planet it's located. Like a good friend of mine once said, "There are only two types of people. Ukrainians and those who want to be Ukrainian!"

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Kultural Capsule

Ira Aldridge and Taras Shevchenko

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