Romance with the West: Anna Akhmatova, Amedeo Modigliani and Sir Isaiah Berlin

• Russian TV documentary, TV Guberniya: a monologue by the presenter with accompanying stock archive film apparently of no direct relevance
• First transmission: 2012
• Duration: 18 minutes 22 seconds
• Series: Poets and Muses of the Silver Age, Series 1: Anna Akhmatova
• Author and presenter: Valery Bondarenko
• Producer: Aleksandr Zinin
• Recording: YouTube

Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone

Escaping Riga

• Film about IB and Sergey Eisenstein
• Premiere: Splendid Palace cinema, Riga, 1 April 2016
• First TV transmission (in Slovenia): Radiotelevizija Slovenija, TV Slovenija 2, 8 February 2016
• Duration: 70 minutes
• Director: Dāvis Sīmanis
• Film studio: Mistrus Media

Head to Head

Great Thinkers in Their Own Words 2: The Grand Experiment

• Documentary film based on the BBC archives, containing clips of IB from items 29 and 70 (IB section starts disc 2, 21:25:08)
• First transmission: 9.00 pm 8/8/11 BBC4 TV
• Duration: 60 minutes
• Series: Great Thinkers in Their Own Words, Episode 2
• Presenter: Rebecca Front
• Producer: Suniti Somaiya
• Transcript (IB’s contributions only): made by Henry Hardy

Born in Riga

• Documentary film on IB’s Latvian origins, intercut with interviews (with G. A. Cohen, Timothy Garton Ash, Peter Halban, Henry Hardy, Alan Montefiore, Anthony Quinton) and footage of IB
• First transmission: 4.10 pm 31/7/10 Latvian TV, Channel 1
• Duration: 32 minutes
• Repeat: 10.25 pm 2/8/10 Latvian TV, Channel 1
• Presenter: Björn Alexander Düben
• Director: Gints Grūbe
• Transcript: made by Esther Johnson and Henry Hardy

Akhmatova against Stalin

The Visitor from the Future: Isaiah Berlin

• Russian documentary
• First transmission: 9 September 2009, Russian TV, ‘Culture’ channel
• Duration: 25 minutes 29 seconds
• Series: Civilisation
• Interviewees: Igor Mordvinov, Anatoly Naiman (consultant)
• Producer: Elena Gryaznova
• Translation of soundtrack made for IBVL by Natal′ya Sarana
• Recording: YouTube

A Conversation with Isaiah Berlin

• Interview with IB by John Merson, 1974
• First transmission: 13 June 2009 ABC Radio National, Australia
• Duration: 25 minutes
• Series: The Philosopher’s Zone
• Presenter: Alan Saunders
• Producer: Kyla Slaven
• Transcript: ABC website
• Recording: ABC website; YouTube

*A Tribute to Isaiah Berlin

• Interview on IB with John Gray; includes clip of IB from 105
• First transmission: 6 June 2009 ABC Radio National, Australia
• Duration: 25 minutes
• Series: The Philosopher’s Zone
• Presenter: Alan Saunders
• Producer: Kyla Slaven
• Transcript: ABC website
• Recording: ABC website