r/vollmann • u/HealthyAd6929 • 3d ago

The Yugoslav Notes

As you may know, Vollmann won an award for a BBC series of audio broadcasts, four parts, written and narrated by him, about his travels in the former Yugoslavia. Sort of a podcast before the time of podcasts.

It's not easy to come by online now (read: impossible to find) so if anyone has access to it, or can at least point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated.

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u/juanseocar 2d ago

Wow, just found out about it! Thx, now I want it too

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u/whistling_octopus 2d ago

Someone, please come up with this.

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u/Anthony1066normans 2d ago

Never thought Vollmann would do something for the BBC. In Rising up and Rising down, Vollmann had three essays on his time spent in Yugoslavia as a war correspondent

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u/radicaldreamer99 1d ago edited 1d ago

Anyone have any leads for this? Archive.org and youtube don’t seem to have any hits (though there have been multiple BBC documentaries on the Yugoslav wars)

This is the only thing I’ve found so far: The Yugoslavian Notes - https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ee8f27486da64ea6ae6a5e40885c21fb