BBC Radio 4 dramatised Vasily Grossman's epic novel Life and Fate

starring Kenneth Branagh and David Tennant.
Thirteen episodes will be broadcast from 18 to 25 September on Radio 4.

All the episodes are available to download.
BBC organized a day of public events in Oxford on Friday 9 September to bring together some of the experts on and enthusiasts for Life and Fate.

It was a kind of small Life and Fate festival, if you like, linked to an academic symposium on Grossman's work organised jointly by Oxford and Aberystwyth Universities which took place the following day.

Speakers at the symposium: Yury Bit-Yunan (Moscow); Robert Chandler (London); Alex Danchev (Nottingham); Laura Guillaume (Aberystwyth/Open); Wendy Lower (Munich); Giovanni Maddalena (Molise); Joshua Rubenstein (Amnesty/Harvard); Katia Shulga (London); Sarah J Young (London); and Polly Zavadivker (Santa Cruz).

The Radio 4 day included a recording of Start the Week with Andrew Marr.