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===Radio=== * The [[BBC Home Service]] broadcast an eight-part adaptation by Walter Peacock from 17 January to 7 February 1943 with two episodes on each Sunday. All but the last instalment, which ran for one and a half hours, were one hour long. [[Leslie Banks]] played Pierre while [[Celia Johnson]] was Natasha. * In December 1970, [[Pacifica Foundation|Pacifica Radio]] station [[WBAI]] broadcast a reading of the entire novel (the 1968 [[Ann Dunnigan|Dunnigan]] translation) read by over 140 celebrities and ordinary people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/05funddrive/war.html |title=The War and Peace Broadcast: 35th Anniversary |access-date=2006-02-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060209122629/http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/05funddrive/war.html |archive-date=2006-02-09 }}. Pacificaradioarchives.org</ref> * A dramatised full-cast adaptation in 20 parts, edited by Michael Bakewell, was broadcast by the BBC between 30 December 1969 and 12 May 1970, with a cast including David Buck, Kate Binchy, and Martin Jarvis. * A dramatised full-cast adaptation in ten parts was written by Marcy Kahan and Mike Walker in 1997 for [[BBC Radio 4]]. The production won the 1998 Talkie award for Best Drama and was around 9.5 hours in length. It was directed by Janet Whitaker and featured [[Simon Russell Beale]], Gerard Murphy, Richard Johnson, and others.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/mkahan.html |title=Marcy Kahan Radio Plays |access-date=2010-01-20 |work=War and Peace (Radio Dramatization)}}</ref> * On New Year's Day 2015, [[BBC Radio 4]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04wz7q2|title=War and Peace - BBC Radio 4|website=BBC}}</ref> broadcast a dramatisation over 10 hours. The dramatisation, by playwright [[Timberlake Wertenbaker]], was directed by Celia de Wolff and starred [[Paterson Joseph]] and [[John Hurt]]. It was accompanied by a Tweetalong: live tweets throughout the day that offered a playful companion to the book and included plot summaries and entertaining commentary. The Twitter feed also shared maps, family trees and battle plans.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/a9644825-840d-46a4-b2b6-ce8da89aba50 |title=Is your New Year resolution finally to read ''War & Peace''? |author=Rhian Roberts |publisher=BBC Blogs |date=17 December 2014 }}</ref>
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