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Tolstoy from Riches to Rags

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

The story of Count Leo Tolstoy's eventful and tragic life - a dramatic journey from the full sensuality of youth to a position of extreme asceticism.
Locations include old St Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev, the Caucasus, and Yasnaya Polyana, Tolstoy's home and estate in the heart of the Russian countryside. The film also contains some unique archive film of his last years.
"...more poignant than anything any drama department could invent" (The Times)
Interviews with Malcolm Muggeridge and Theodore Roszak

(The Radio Times 'War and Peace' special, 84 colour pages for 25p, goes on sale on Thursday 28 September - the day BBC2's 20-part colour dramatisation of Tolstoy's classic begins. Next week's Radio Times includes a colour feature on the making of this TV epic.)

Contributors

Narrator:
Richard Hurndall
Writer/Interviewee:
Theodore Roszak
Writer/Producer:
Jonathan Stedall
Interviewee:
Malcolm Muggeridge
Film Editor:
Jonathan Gill
Source: Radio Times

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