VIDEO PODCAST: Slava Ukraini! - recorded on 24 February 2022, the day Europe woke up to the news that Vladimir Putin's Russian forces had invaded Ukraine. A fifty minute video which also features Caitríona O'Leary and Eric Fraad discussing their new film Island of Saints, and pays tribute to Joseph Horovitz, Malcolm Troup and Maria Nockin.
Russian composer and conductor Anatoly Lvovitch Kremer was born on 9 March 1933.
He was known for his film scores - Eksperiment (1970), Klop 75 ili Mayakovsky of 1976 and the 1994 TV movie Nam syo eshchyo semshno - and many operettas and musical comedies. He was chief conductor of the Moscow Academic Theatre of Satire, and a former People's Artist of the USSR.
He died on 1 August 2015, aged eighty-two, following a long illness.