Vasily Grossman's Life & Fate now on BBC Radio
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Life & Fate: The Great Lost Russian Novel. "Kenneth Branagh and David Tennant star in an eight-hour dramatisation of Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. Thirteen episodes will be broadcast from 18 to 25 September on Radio 4. This epic masterpiece, centred around the bloody battle of Stalingrad, charts the fate of both a nation and a family in the turmoil of war. Completed in 1960, the novel was deemed so dangerous by the KGB that the book itself was arrested. All the episodes are available to download." Some critics claim the book is right up there with War & Peace, and the BBC adaptions are garnering high praise too. Click the link above to hear for yourself.
This post was deleted for the following reason: She don't use butter / she don't use cheese/ she don't use jelly / or any of these / she uses Vaaaah-aaah-aaaaaaaaaah-si-lyyyyyyyy -- cortex
I think this post is going to be disappeared in true Soviet fashion as a double.
posted by joannemullen at 7:15 AM on September 23, 2011
posted by joannemullen at 7:15 AM on September 23, 2011
Yeah, I'm not seeing the previous post either...
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:19 AM on September 23, 2011
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:19 AM on September 23, 2011
Here plus the deleted one from earlier this week, which I don't even know how to look for.
posted by DU at 7:21 AM on September 23, 2011
posted by DU at 7:21 AM on September 23, 2011
In Soviet Russia, post doubles you!
posted by Trurl at 7:21 AM on September 23, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Trurl at 7:21 AM on September 23, 2011 [1 favorite]
the novel was deemed so dangerous by the KGB that the book itself was arrested
Reading this sentence generated a series of farcial, Hogan's Heroes-style scenes in my mind.
posted by orange swan at 7:22 AM on September 23, 2011
Reading this sentence generated a series of farcial, Hogan's Heroes-style scenes in my mind.
posted by orange swan at 7:22 AM on September 23, 2011
This post and that one show why tagging as it exists now doesn't work, btw. How are two post authors supposed to know what another person tagged it as? If we could *all* tag *all* posts, this problem would be greatly lessened. That's what "folk taxonomy" is supposed to be about.
posted by DU at 7:22 AM on September 23, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by DU at 7:22 AM on September 23, 2011 [1 favorite]
Here plus the deleted one from earlier this week, which I don't even know how to look for.
Bless. (Bookmarked to feed my Tennant fetish.)
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:23 AM on September 23, 2011
Bless. (Bookmarked to feed my Tennant fetish.)
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:23 AM on September 23, 2011
All you have to do to find the previously is put "Life and Fate" in the search box. It's not complicated.
posted by Trurl at 7:24 AM on September 23, 2011
posted by Trurl at 7:24 AM on September 23, 2011
141 more?
posted by contrarian at 7:31 AM on September 23, 2011
posted by contrarian at 7:31 AM on September 23, 2011
Looking at the tag list for the previously post, all one would have to do is search for any of the major players in this story (actors' names, author, title of work, broadcast network it is on, etc) and one should have come up with the previously post.
The main reason the link checker didn't work is because one person linked to the podcast page and the other linked to the Radio 4 page.
posted by hippybear at 7:31 AM on September 23, 2011
The main reason the link checker didn't work is because one person linked to the podcast page and the other linked to the Radio 4 page.
posted by hippybear at 7:31 AM on September 23, 2011
Wow, I get to do this AGAIN (just did it on Tuesday):
The [FPP] was deemed so dangerous by the [mods] that the [post] itself was arrested.
posted by obscurator at 7:31 AM on September 23, 2011
The [FPP] was deemed so dangerous by the [mods] that the [post] itself was arrested.
posted by obscurator at 7:31 AM on September 23, 2011
Trurl, if people are going to shit first-thing in a thread about an interesting book, at least they can link to the goddamn previous post so we know what the hell they are talking about, and they can prove their point.
posted by KokuRyu at 7:32 AM on September 23, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by KokuRyu at 7:32 AM on September 23, 2011 [1 favorite]
Pointing out that something is a double is not thread shitting.
Saying, "this post is stupid and shouldn't be here" is thread shitting.
Nobody has done the second.
posted by hippybear at 7:37 AM on September 23, 2011 [2 favorites]
Saying, "this post is stupid and shouldn't be here" is thread shitting.
Nobody has done the second.
posted by hippybear at 7:37 AM on September 23, 2011 [2 favorites]
Pointing out that something is a double is not thread shitting. Saying, "this post is stupid and shouldn't be here" is thread shitting.
The definition seems to have evolved into "any comment that irritates me".
posted by Trurl at 7:39 AM on September 23, 2011
The definition seems to have evolved into "any comment that irritates me".
posted by Trurl at 7:39 AM on September 23, 2011
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