Babske Radio
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Duration 0 min
Synopsis
Every evening, shortly before the geese and the cows come home, the women of Jalzowka meet for a daily exchange of information on the wooden benches outside their houses. The men of this little village in West Ukraine refer to this daily get-together as “Babske Radio”, old wives’ radio. Everything of importance in the big world outside and in the little world of Jalzowka gets thrashed out here: Sasha has caught a huge fish, the market prices for butter have dropped, Andrey climbed over the fence for a tête-à-tête with Tonya, the Ukraine should keep out of NATO. Resourcefulness and self-sufficiency are at a premium in a village inhabited almost entirely by old people, old women to be more precise, where the villagers themselves produce what they live on, where little help can be expected from elsewhere, apart from a niggardly monthly pension that sometimes just fails to materialise.
Every evening, shortly before the geese and the cows come home, the women of Jalzowka meet for a daily exchange of information on the wooden benches outside their houses. The men of this little village in West Ukraine refer to this daily get-together as “Babske Radio”, old wives’ radio. Everything of importance in the big world outside and in the little world of Jalzowka gets thrashed out here: Sasha has caught a huge fish, the market prices for butter have dropped, Andrey climbed over the fence for a tête-à-tête with Tonya, the Ukraine should keep out of NATO. Resourcefulness and self-sufficiency are at a premium in a village inhabited almost entirely by old people, old women to be more precise, where the villagers themselves produce what they live on, where little help can be expected from elsewhere, apart from a niggardly monthly pension that sometimes just fails to materialise.