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TV series show: Volodymyr Zelensky’s political satire ‘Servant of the People’

By France24
03 April 2022   |   11:11 am
From "Servant of the People", the show that launched the political career of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, to "Pachinko", a multi-generational saga about a Korean family living under Japanese occupation, our critic Alison Sargent speaks to Eve Jackson about what's hot on the small screen this month.

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