Episode 4
Leningrad students Elena and Nina are considered mature enough to teach Russian to visiting Americans. Read by Sian Thomas.
Elena Gorokhova is understandably nervous when the university authorities select her to teach English to visiting American students during the summer break.
It is the first time she has seen a live American and now she is faced with fourteen of them, staring at her with the same intense curiosity with which she stares at them.
And she likes what she sees, especially when she is introduced to Robert.
Read by Sian Thomas
A Jane Marshall Production for 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4.
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