Series: War and peace be upon you

24 June 2016 - 10:52
By Andrew Donaldson

No one does the dressing-up stuff quite like the BBC. Period. With Andrew Davies's adaptation of Tolstoy's War and Peace, which starts on BBC First on Sunday evening, they have raised the bar once again. Having seen the first episode, albeit on a poky tablet, I'm hooked already.Critics have raved. The Daily Telegraph's Ben Lawrence said of War and Peace that it was "safe to say that this is the greatest TV costume drama of the past decade" and a production that has "demystified" the novel: "its...

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