Timeshift · SEASON 7
Watching the Russians
Episode 9 · 2007-11-21

- Documentary
Episode overview
Beginning with the rise of Russophobia in Victorian Britain, former MI5 director general Stella Rimington explores our love-hate relationship with Russia over the past 150 years. The journey takes her to the East End of London on the trail of Russian revolutionaries and to the former mining town of Chopwell, once dubbed Little Moscow. She talks to former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky and shares recollections of the bugged British embassy in Moscow with former ambassador Rodric Braithwaite.
60 minutes
Season 7 episodes
1. The Edwardian Larder2007-04-18
2. How To Be a Good Prime Minister2007-09-22
3. Gagging For It: TV's Hunger for Radio Comedy2007-10-01
4. Whatever Happened to Radio 2?2007-10-05
5. Emmylou Harris's Ten Commandments of Country2007-10-12
6. Emmylou Harris at the BBC2007-10-12
7. Archaeology - Digging the Past2007-10-21
8. Sir Mortimer Wheeler - A Life in Ruins2007-10-21
9. Watching the Russians2007-11-21
10. Never Had It So Good?2007-12-10
11. A Game of Two Eras: 1957 v 20072007-12-13
12. Stuffed: The Great British Christmas Dinner2007-12-23
13. The Rise and Fall of the Ad Man2008-03-09