Timeshift

Season 7 Episode 9: Watching the Russians

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.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

17

Episodes:

184

Cast:

Quality:

HD

Duration:

60 min

First Air:

2002

Rating:

7.0