Marina Litvinenko: The truth about Alexander Litvinenko's murder
6 November - 59 mins
Podcast Series
Full Disclosure with James O'Brien
Marina Litvinenko never wanted to be a public figure. Raised as an only child in an ordinary Soviet family, she dreamed of dancing professionally and found freedom, colour and possibility on the ballroom floor. But her life changed irrevocably when she met Alexander “Sasha” Litvinenko, a security officer whose growing alarm at corruption inside Russia’s intelligence services would eventually force them into exile.
In this special episode of Full Disclosure, James O’Brien speaks to Marina about her new memoir ‘A Life in Fragments: Our Love, His Murder, My Resistance’. She recalls growing up amid the shortages and double standards of the Soviet Union, meeting Sasha for the first time, and wat...
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