Vasily Grossman: 'Life and Fate' and its legacy

Vasily Grossman (1905 - 1964) was a soviet writer and journalist. His masterpiece, Life and Fate, pitted communism against fascism but came down on the side of human kindness. Andrew Marr discusses the legacy of the novel with historian Antony Beevor and the writers Andrey Kurkov and Linda Grant. Recorded in Oxford, 2011, BBC