Peter Bach, a German officer, is wounded and treated at a military field hospital. Life and Fate: Lieutenant Peter Bach (Woman's Hour Drama) 22 Sep.

Their leader is Grekov but they call him 'The Manager', an informality that worries party apparatchiks.

Life and Fate: Building 6/1 - Those Who Were Still Alive (Afternoon Play) 21 Sepīuilding 6/1 is a former apartment block in Stalingrad that hides a clutch of Russian soldiers defending the frontline.

Lyuda's ex-husband, Abarchuk, is still a staunch believer in the Party even though he was arrested and sent to a Russian labour camp some years ago.

Life and Fate: Abarchuk (Woman's Hour Drama) 21 Sep.

(Starring Samuel West, John Sessions and Sara Kestelman) A German SS officer, Liss, oversees the building of the gas chambers and entertains Eichmann on an inspection tour. Sofya, a Jewish doctor, is taken prisoner and put on a cattle-truck going west to Poland.

Life and Fate: Journey (Afternoon Play) 20 Sep.

She is stranded in Stalingrad with her father, Stepan. In a forest in northern Russia, Lenya, a pilot, longs to see his pregnant girlfriend, Vera.

Life and Fate: Vera and her Pilot (Woman's Hour Drama) 20 Sep.

Angered by the ordinary soldiers' response to his political position, he volunteers for dangerous missions.

Life and Fate: Krymov and Zhenya - Lovers Once (Afternoon Play) 19 Sepĭavid Tennant plays Nikolai Krymov, a commissar, posted to Stalingrad.

As a Jew in Berdichev, in the Ukraine now occupied by the Germans, she has been forced into a ghetto and understands what will come next. Viktor's mother, Anna, writes him a farewell letter.

Life and Fate: Anna's Letter (Woman's Hour Drama) 19 Sep.

(Starring Kenneth Branagh, Greta Scacchi and Harriet Walter) Kenneth Branagh plays Viktor, a nuclear physicist, evacuated with his family and members of his research institute eastwards from Moscow to Kazan.

Life and Fate: Viktor and Lyuda (Classic Serial, ep 1) 18 Sep.

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