What happens
Russian correspondent Maurice Voitecov arrives at a naval headquarters requesting passage to Sevastopol, where the city is under siege. The story follows Boris Voitikov as he files reports from the bombarded city, tracking the buildings still standing as the German assault intensifies. Divers, a fierce commissar and a wounded boy named Nikolai appear amid the destruction, along with a sapper and a commander who refuses to rest. The episode is part of the radio series Words at War, adapted from Boris Voitikov's book The Last Days of Sevastopol, first aired on 1943-07-17. Stefan Schnabel is heard as Boris Voitikov in the cast.
Sevastopol, Crimean Peninsula, during the German siege in June 1942
Characters: Maurice Voitecov, Boris Voitikov, Nikolai, Ivan, Olga, Gregori
Listen for: The steady count of standing buildings in Sevastopol, reported by correspondent Boris Voitikov as the city falls under bombardment.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.