# Anna Pavlova

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Ian Dunt's UK, Spain's defiant PM, and Pavlova's tour of Oz

Ian Dunt surveys the unfathomable political turmoil in the United Kingdom, as a monumental by-election looms for Andy Burnham, the key Labour rival of embattled Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Journalist Maria Ramirez examines the left-wing Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. a defiant politic...

Reflections: Anna Pavlova

As part of Voices of British Ballet’s Reflections series Jane Pritchard, curator of Dance at the Victoria and Albert Museum, talks to Patricia Linton, founder and director of Voices of British Ballet, about the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova and her influence on Frederick Ashton. Anna Pavlova is ...

How did ballet start?

Did you know ballet is basically an extreme sport mixed with a royal dance party? Join Mira and Finn as they leap into the amazing, high-flying history of ballet! We're traveling back 600 years to the Italian Renaissance, where kings and queens threw giant parties and danced in velvet dresses wei...

Anna Pavlova: The Romanov Ballerina

Divas strap in, because we are going back to Imperial Russia with our deep dive on Anna Pavlova: the most famous ballerina in history! From the cold, damp streets of St Petersburg where she struggled with sickness and poverty, to the glittering stages of the world, Anna Pavlova became both the da...

BREAKING: Four Iranian Voices Reply to Trump, Lebanon Death Toll Rises to 11 | 1930s Radio

📰 THE DAILY DISPATCH: Get this bulletin in your inbox every morning, free: https://winradradio.substack.com/ Winrad Broadcasting Service daily news bulletin for Sunday, August 16, 2026, day 170 since the war with Iran began. Today's report: FOUR IRANIAN VOICES REPLY TO TRUMP Sat. ARAGHCHI early ...

The ballerina Kiwis remember every Christmas

It's 100 years since a Russian ballerina visited our shores and left her name here forever. Everyone knows the pavlova was named after Anna Pavlova, but what's still debated is exactly where and when the dessert got the name, with people on both sides of the Tasman laying claim. Writer and cultur...

The Company She Built, The Tradition She Carries

Dear Reader, We tend to think of ballet as an art form whose history belongs to another era. And yet many of the artists—the masters—who shaped the ballet we recognize today were working within living memory, and some of their direct artistic descendants are still teaching, coaching and staging. ...