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COPYRIGHT 2001 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
Great events are rarely dull in the retelling, and the story of the attempted coup in the Soviet Union in August 1991 produced some absorbing radio in The Archive Hour: Three Days That Changed the World on Radio Four (Saturday). The presenter, Bridget Kendall, was the BBC's Moscow correspondent at the time and with her BBC colleagues she recalled the confusion and tension of the overthrow of Mikhail Gorbachev's still-communist government.
As it was August Gorbachev was on holiday at his villa in the Crimea and most correspondents were on leave. Kendall was woken at 6 a.m. by her London desk and told that the Soviet news agency, Tass, was announcing the coup...
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