The series which explores living memory is ten years old. To mark the occasion we present eight programmes from its earlier years.
By the time Alexandra Tolstoy was born her father had written most of his great novels. She is his last surviving child and the 12th of his 13 children.
In this film, made when she was 86, she movingly recalls the years she was Tolstoy's secretary and confidante.
"A Yesterday's Witness that makes you bless the day they invented the box."
(The Observer)
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