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The guest of this episode of Interview Hour is writer, educator, and researcher Elena Makarova. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GwyzB9BURs&t=1s This conversation explores art as a form of survival and resistance, family memory of the GULAG, inner dissent, and the refusal to live by lies. Elena Makarova speaks about her unconventional childhood in a family of poets, encounters with censorship and pressure, her…

During our work on the film about Pavlo Virsky, we planned to record a conversation with Virsky Ensemble dancer Leonid Voronov — about his years in the ensemble, about rehearsals, about the inner life of the collective. We intended to do this — but he refused. Leonid is no longer with us. Yet this situation…

A new episode of “Interview Hour” features an open and honest conversation with Ukrainian animator, director, and producer Adrian Sakhaltuev — son of the legendary Radna Sakhaltuev, a pioneer of Ukrainian animation.  How can we preserve authenticity and human dignity in a world where technology increasingly replaces personal experience?  How did working in animation and…

“As long as I live, I must remember.” Volodymyr Kolot came to Bykivnia, the forest outside Kyiv where tens of thousands of victims of Stalinist terror were buried in mass graves. His grandfather, Kyrylo Davy­dovych Kolot, was one of them — executed in 1937. For years, the family only knew that he had disappeared. In…

 “Hour of Interview” with Gregory Antimony  Guest: Ukrainian historian Ihor Shchupak What is memory made of? In this bold and thoughtful conversation, historian Ihor Shchupak opens rarely discussed pages of Ukrainian and Jewish history: — Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and his role in rescuing Jews during the Holocaust — Why international recognition as a “Righteous Among the Nations” is…

In the new episode of “Hour of Interview” – Masha Terentyeva, a star performer of the world-renowned Cirque du Soleil!  The daughter of legendary mime and clown Nikolai Terentyev, Masha carved her own path in the world of circus arts, becoming one of Cirque du Soleil’s top gymnasts. What is it like growing up in a family where the stage…