TV Show: Imagine
Aired on: 10:25 PM on March 27th, 2011 - Sunday
Channel: BBC One Channel
Episode Details: Season 18 Episode 7
Episode Name: The Trouble With Tolstoy – At War With Himself
Preview:
Alan Yentob takes an epic train ride through Tolstoy's Russia, examining how Russia's great novelist became her great troublemaker.
In this programme, he reveals a difficult and troubled youth, obsessed with sex and gambling, who turned writer while serving as a soldier in Chechnya and the Crimea. His experiences on the frontline eventually fed into War and Peace, a book now recognised as, 'the gold standard by which all other novels are judged'. They also triggered his conversion to outspoken pacifist.
Imagine Season 18 Episode 7 The Trouble With Tolstoy – At War With Himself
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