CamRuSS Bridget Kendall’s Presentation, 26 March

Bridget Kendall has a particular interest in Russia and its relations with the West, and was the BBC Moscow correspondent in 1989-1994, reporting on the break-up of the Soviet Union.

• WHEN: Monday, 26 March, 7.30pm
• WHERE: Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE

Bridget Kendal has interviewed many renowned world leaders, and has made several documentaries for BBC television, including profiles of Vladimir Putin, Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Most recently, in 2006, she conducted debates with Russian audiences in St.Petersburg, Moscow and Siberia, on Russia’s future, which were broadcast worldwide. In the same year, Bridget Kendall travelled to Chernobyl to work on a programme devoted to the 20th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

She has strong Cambridge connections, and graduated from the Perse School for Girls, where, in particular, she learnt Russian; Bridget’s first Russian teacher was Vera Petrovna Gysin.