War and Peace is bemusing, idiosyncratic and rambling - so why is Radio 4 dedicating New Year's day to it?

It seems almost perverse to plunge into the bewildering domestic and military minutiae of War and Peace when Anna Karenina has a mesmerising plot and a haunting tragic heroine





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