{"podcast":{"title":"The Slavic Literature Pod","slug":"the-slavic-literature-pod-2534403","podcast_index_feed_id":2534403,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/8100a5ac-e63a-4676-9165-e34193c74a47","website_url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/slaviclitpod","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2025/1/4/7/ad6d4c3e-6f7b-40fc-8cfb-11e37a5d4165_0d798a660_10394377-1656108082867-a6609dcbc94d2.jpg","author":"The Slavic Literature Pod","episode_count":188,"summary":"The Slavic Literature Pod is your guide to the literary traditions in and around the Slavic world. On each episode, Cameron Lallana sits down with scholars, translators and other experts to dive deep into big books, short stories, film, and everything in between. You’ll get an approachable introduction to the scholarship and big ideas surrounding these canons roughly two Fridays per month.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T16:18:05.509327+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slavic-literature-pod-2534403"},"episode":{"title":"PREP WORK: The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman","slug":"prep-work-the-last-letter-2002-by-frederick-wiseman","published_at":"2026-04-03T18:44:24+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slavic-literature-pod-2534403/prep-work-the-last-letter-2002-by-frederick-wiseman","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slavic-literature-pod-2534403","url":"https://slaviclitpod.com","audio_url":"https://audio3.redcircle.com/episodes/58f07010-a261-4993-a72b-a09f6ec8bfa3/stream.mp3","summary":"Show Notes : This week, you and Cameron get into some PREP WORK for an upcoming episode about Frederick Wiseman’s 2002 film “The Last Letter,” which dramatizes a chapter of Vassily Grossman’s Life and Fate . In preparation for that episode, we’ll read that dramatized chapter — Part 1, Chapter 18, Anna Semyonova’s final letter to her son, Viktor Shtrum — along with two other letters Grossman wrote to his mother after her death. The music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка / Peremotka. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube . Our links: Website | ⁠Discord⁠ Socials: Instagram⁠ | BlueSky | Twitter⁠ | Facebook Questions, comments, want to hear your voice on a bonus episode? Send us an email at slaviclitpod@gmail.com . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands","meta_description":"Show Notes : This week, you and Cameron get into some PREP WORK for an upcoming episode about Frederick Wiseman’s 2002 film “The Last Letter,” which drama…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3078,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-slavic-literature-pod-2534403/episodes/prep-work-the-last-letter-2002-by-frederick-wiseman/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-slavic-literature-pod-2534403/prep-work-the-last-letter-2002-by-frederick-wiseman.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}