John Hodge on dramatising Stalin

In Just Send Me Word, the historian recounts the true love story of two young Muscovites, whose smuggled letters to one another form a detailed and agonizing account of life in Stalin’s Soviet Union. Orlando Figes talks to Stephanie Merritt and introduces a selection of the letters read by Jacqueline Defferary and Alex Jennings from the cast of Collaborators.

John Hodge talks about how he created the character of Stalin in his new play Collaborators.

A short film about the play Collaborators written by John Hodge, which fictionalises the relationship between famous Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov and Stalin.

Dr. Julie Curtis is the UK's leading research specialist on Bulgakov. She is a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and her recent publications include "Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov, a Life in Letters and Diaries" and "Bulgakov's Last Decade: The Writer as Hero".