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EPISODE · Aug 22, 2026 · 32 MIN

This is how Ukrainian artists are fighting back

from The New Statesman Podcast, Subscriber Only Edition

Charlotte Higgins has spent most of her career interviewing and critiquing artists, authors and poets as the Guardian's chief culture writer. It was unlikely that her work would ever take her to a warzone.   But following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she found herself drawn to this country under siege. She wanted to ask, what happens to art under war? And could Ukrainian culture not just survive, but flourish?

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