Opening Lines: Anna Karenina (Part 1)

Series 6, episode 1

The first of three programmes in which John Yorke unpacks the themes behind the story in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, a book credited with perfecting the art of 19th-century realism while foreshadowing the modernist novel. John examines the central tragic love story between an unhappily married aristocrat and a dashing young army officer

Cast (unconfirmed)

John Yorke