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San Francisco expat Nancy Denny-Phelps recounts slightly bizarre slices of life on a Russian train on the way to the annual Krok Animation Festival. She and husband composer Nik Phelps are regulars on the European animation festival circuit. Some of Nik's music for animated films is on the above 29-minute mp3.
 
This is the complete KUSF broadcast from May 16, 2007.
- about Nik & Nancy:
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"On Saturday, August 5th as I sat at the window of the train in Gent, Belgium, waving goodbye to Nik, I was full of thoughts of KROK, my favorite international animation festival. Little did I suspect that my three-day train trip to Moscow would turn into an adventure of epic proportions...."

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