ID3 TALB $ Life and Fate - The Complete SeriesTPE1 7 Vasily Grossman/Kenneth Branagh/©AudioGO Ltd 2011TCOP ©AudioGO Ltd 2011TCON FictionTIT2 Life and Fate - Part 1TRCK 1COMM ENG
Kenneth Branagh stars in BBC Radio 4's ambitious eight-hour dramatisation of 'Life and Fate', Vasily Grossman's epic masterpiece set during the Battle of Stalingrad.
This powerful work, completed in 1960, charts the fate of both a nation and a family in the turmoil of war. Its comparison of Stalinism with Nazism was considered by Soviet authorities to be so dangerous that the KGB placed the manuscript under arrest and Grossman was informed his book would not be published for at least 200 years.
Having been a household name as one of Russia's most distinguished war correspondents, Grossman died aged 58 - the banning of his book hastening the end of his life - and he would never know the fate of his masterpiece: smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm, to freedom and eventual publication in the West. Today it is increasingly hailed as the most important Russian novel of the 20th Century.TLEN 000000120033Pd i 4 I)4ic,2&fM?&%P|ɃB w3ͻ25* 5H tCp g8Ģ0 )ŽG ` |cܚ =2lAd!ɠ}05UU@NA 'OݳN[8RdV i 4 z&B 3]Ә &w/P PLZ)Ckr1m-nq`[ C")ηc+ 2PDd N',2u IOD@vD"~븱 > ! (x Ѻ1k5!Rd i `@M@K U R^̣i*Ks JH06Tm g)RUA漄M ѨU#q #<$A1 $,>_ P분 QZ3TrĚ]1ϱ@!ÂzY v8',vrIe!P 0`?%TD逩@Rd c#C0!p(z &HS% @cu!P/ٍ@RE///knI7to̎^~)] @H]J (6Q ju A= Ai$WResR2djt@YC:>@\=2Ӧ:pX`<~5n`v@E.뺝&w6 X1pH@ 4RdR4K0#R P:'RN0Aps -ƚPkG&lK7.NN7jm~`"RrUf`i\|J ( qʬ'(m' / FrM a9`LW9SM5.y5j}^Rҍß'RdՀa9(a @k [b0A ff 7YdP P+v8L=S j:A˹: ޑ;x+iKk@OӥuzYhj?zoP NG+%j `J`Ar!Qud-K,e)x&gq47"N6DRd MSn"` ` e10W ?s*2 % U"EL(.anNrn~&2jk$$( %3@*w6Mez~K4-* kI7$Fi@jD?'L$}Q0Sz086 pb8 DڂRq%n#7/%Rd ;FNj`&<{K`(D1 j֓ED(j_TI()v1"Pa";.5.{DGѮOm1 AȜ(iۙա>vs.p #*ޥE$ 8Z-" .<