ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH

3PM, RADIO 4 ★★★★

Soviet troops captured by the Germans during the Second World War endured appalling conditions. They were used as slave labour, and many were starved to death. The end of the war didn’t mean the end of their troubles – Stalin declared these

troops to have been traitors and spies. They were sent to forced labour camps, where many of them ended their days. This drama, adapted from the novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, with Olivia Darnley as narrator, follows a day in the life of one of these men, struggling to stay alive in one of Stalin’s Gulags.