by Leo Tolstoy
A dramatisation in 20 parts from the translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude edited by Michael Bakewell
Executive producer Ronald Mason
with David Buck. Kate Binchy, Martin Jarvis, Anna Cropper, Christopher Guinee, Jeremy Clyde and

'What is War and Peace? It is not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less an historical chronicle. War and Peace is what the author wished and was able to express in the form in which it is expressed.'
Part 1: St Petersburg, 1805
Adapted by MICHAEL BAKEWELL
Directed by RONALD MASON
(Jeremy Clyde is in 'Conduct Unbecoming' at the Queen's Theatre; Christopher Guinee in 'The Magistrate' at the Cambridge Theatre; Martin Jarvis in 'The Bandwagon' at the Mermaid Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Sunday, 2.30 pm)
(Full page feature in next week's Radio Times)