- Title: East Meets Wax
- Date: 13th January 1989
- Summary: SIX MONTHS PREGNANT AND DESPARATE FOR WORK RUBY WAX HAS ACCEPTED A SUMMER SEASON TOUR OF THE NIGHT SPOTS OF RUSSIA. SHE ARRIVES ARMED WITH ALL THE PRECONCEPTIO NS THAT AN AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS UPBRINGING CAN MUSTER, AND IS SHOCKED TO FIND T HAT HER RUSSIAN INTERPRETER IS A TALL GLAMOROUS SOPHISTCATE, AND NOT THE DOWDY P ICTURE OF RUSSIAN WOMANHOOD THAT SHE HAD ENVISAGED - AN ICY RELATIONSHIP BEGINS. DESCRIBING HERSELF AS A CARRIER PIGEON OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION, SHE DOGGEDLY BE MUSES HER AUDIENCES THROUGHOUT THE USSR. BUT AS THE TOUR PROGRESSES, RUBY MEETS AN EXRAORDINARY SELECTION OF RUSSIANS AND THROUGH THEM GLEANS A SEMBLANCE OF WH AT THE SOVIET SPIRIT IS ALL ABOUT.
- Description:A HUMOUROUS DOCUMENTARY ABOUT RUBY WAX IN THE USSR. RUBY IS PREGNANT AND BORED AND TO GET HER OFF THE TELEPHONE HER AGENT ARRANGES A CABARET TOUR. RUBY IS SOMEWHAT STUNNED WHEN SHE LEARNS THAT THIS TOUR IS IN THE USSR.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Unspecified
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:13/01/1989
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1980s