Broadcasts of the Nobel ceremony events, analysis and journalism, stories and movies, current events, discussions, disputes and intrigues around our first-ever Nobel – all this you will see in the “Nobel Week with Svetlana Alexievich” on Belsat TV and during online broadcasts on belsat.eu.
On December 10, the Nobel Prize 2015 for achievements in various fields – from medicine to literature – will be awarded in Stockholm and Oslo. The Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich will receive her first Nobel in the Swedish capital. Because of this historic event, from 7 to 11 December, a significant portion of airtime on Belsat TV will be dedicated to the “Nobel week with Svetlana Alexievich.”
On Monday, December 7, at 19:30, Belsat TV will broadcast live the lecture of the Belarusian Nobel laureate at the Swedish Academy, on December 10, at 18:30 there will be a live broadcast with interpretation into Belarusian of the 2015 Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall.
You can watch live broadcast of Svetlana Alexievich receiving a Nobel Prize in literature with a cash award of nearly a million dollars and delivering a speech both on TV using a satellite dish and a computer or phone online on belsat.eu.
In addition, the “Nobel Week with Svetlana Alexievich” will include daily reports of the Belsat special correspondent in Stockholm Alina Koushyk, including the big press conference of our compatriot, as well as special editions of “Two by Two”, “Remark,” “Conversation,” and “In the World” programs.
Watch the program “Remark” on Monday, December 7, at 22:05:
Yulia Tsimafeyeva at the Lohvinau bookstore speaks about works by Svetlana Alexievich, that brought her the award. Also, you will learn interesting facts about the last book of Alexievich called “Second-hand Time”
Later, at 22:30, watch a documentary “Zone” by Yury Kalina:
This film featuring Svetlana Alexievich tells about one of the most terrible catastrophies that affected Belarusians in the twentieth century – radioactive contamination after the Charnobyl accident. Heartfelt stories of the “Charnobyl survivors” about life in the exclusion zone and outside, philosophical arguments and a sense of global scale of the invisible “enemy” – radiation. It also shows the search for a universal understanding of the dignity of human life and the responsibility for the fate of mankind.
On Tuesday, December 8, at 21:40 writers Zmitser Vishneu and Slavamir Adamovich in the studio of the “Two by Two” program will be looking for answers to questions what the Nobel Prize will give to the Belarusian culture and society.
Nobel Prize is not only a monetary reward and glory for the laureate. It is also 5 minutes of attention for the country represented by the person. Five minutes of attention to its culture and primarily literature. What will Belarus do with five minutes of attention in the world that cannot be bought for any money? This is the topic for the writers to discuss.
On Wednesday, December 9, at 18:25 you will see a report from the press conference of Svetlana Alexievich, during which she will be asked questions by the journalists from around the world.
On Thursday, December 10, at 21:25, a critic, a spokesman for the Union of Belarusian Writers Tsikhan Charnyakevich in the program “Conversation” will tell how it is possible to win a Nobel, and how Svetlana Alexievich managed to get it among hundreds of other writers.
Finally, on Friday, December 11, at 21:40, the special edition of the “On the World” program will summarize the Nobel Week.
What will the world learn of Belarus thanks to Svetlana Alexievich? What has Minsk lost, ignoring the Nobel received by the Belarusian writer? In “On the World” program we will summarize the Nobel Week of Svetlana Alexievich.
Let’s celebrate the first Belarusian Nobel together!
