{"id":22974,"date":"2010-11-18T18:20:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T18:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop_of_canterbury_rowan_williams_on_leon_tolstoy\/"},"modified":"2010-11-18T18:20:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T18:20:59","slug":"archbishop_of_canterbury_rowan_williams_on_leon_tolstoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22974","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio 3: Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams on Leon Tolstoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00vhxn7\">You may find the audio link here (15 minutes long)<\/a> (please note:only available for a few more days).<\/p>\n<p>Herewith the BBC blurb on the programme:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Archbishop of Canterbury presents an essay on the life and work of Leo Tolstoy.<br \/>\nTo mark the 100th anniversary of his death, &#8220;The Essay&#8221; this week considers the life and work of one of the giants of Russian literature &#8211; Leo Tolstoy. Famous for works like the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina and novellas such as Hadji Murad and The Death of Ivan Ilyich Tolstoy continues to fascinate modern audiences. In these programmes, five different presenters explain their own passion for the works of Tolstoy and the Russia he evokes. Coming from very different backgrounds, all the presenters of these essays have had their lives touched &#8211; directly and indirectly &#8211; by the Tolstoy&#8217;s works, they are:<br \/>\nDr Rowan Williams &#8211; Archbishop of Canterbury<br \/>\nWriter and newspaper columnist &#8211; A.N. Wilson<br \/>\nHelen Dunmore &#8211; award winning novelist<br \/>\nProf Anthony Briggs &#8211; a specialist in nineteenth-century Russian literature<br \/>\nBridget Kendall &#8211; BBC Radio correspondent to Moscow 1989-1995<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may find the audio link here (15 minutes long) (please note:only available for a few more days). Herewith the BBC blurb on the programme: The Archbishop of Canterbury presents an essay on the life and work of Leo Tolstoy.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22974\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,50,67,92,200,108,479],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-books","category-europe","category-religion-culture","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}