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Russian Literature, Faith and Doubt

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The novelist Pat Barker and the Reverend Giles Fraser explore what Dostoevsky's and Tolstoy's writing can teach us about faith, doubt and redemption. Ian McMillan presents.

The novelist Pat Barker and the Reverend Giles Fraser explore what Russian literature from Dostoevsky to Tolstoy can teach us about faith, doubt and redemption, with readings from their personal favourites - War and Peace and The Brothers Karamazov. Ian McMillan presents.

Pat Barker is the author of novels including her Regeneration Trilogy, Life Class, The Silence of the Girls and Noonday. Giles Fraser is an English Anglican priest, journalist and broadcaster.

Producer Laura Thomas

Recorded with an audience at the BBC Proms 21 August 2012.

24 minutes

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Thu 30 Jul 202022:20
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Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Holiday - 4th movement from Suite No.1 for two pianos, op.5

    Performer: André Previn. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.

Broadcasts

  • Tue 21 Aug 201219:55
    BBC Radio 3
  • Thu 30 Jul 202022:20
    BBC Radio 3

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