EPISODE · Feb 13, 2009 · 20 MIN

Beatles in the USSR

from The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2009 · host BBC World Service

As Beatlemania swept throughout the world in 1964, it seemed unable to penetrate the Iron Curtain. However, an underground culture grew which used ingenious ways to discover the Beatles' music. Paul Gambaccini reveals the extraordinary ways the Beatles' music was listened to in the Soviet Union during the 1960s. Did the music and spirit of The Beatles help to end communism?

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