Before he was shot on Stalin's orders in January 1940, short-story writer and playwright Isaac Babel made one final plea: "Let me finish my work. Twenty-seven folders of h is work were lost in the confines of the Lubyanka in Moscow.
Professor Jim Riordan talks to friends, lovers and family about Babel the man, and looks for clues to his lost work from those who search the mouldering Moscow archives. Producer Mark Burman