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Behind the Iron Curtain with Sofi Oksanen

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In today’s show: Scorsese's ode to early cinema, we meet the future ballet stars dancing in the footsteps of Billy Elliot and Eve Jackson meets one of the best authors to write about life behind the Iron Curtain, the global literary phenomenon Sofi Oksanen.

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