. >> rose: tom stoppard is considered to be one of our greatest living dramatist and famous for playsrcadia's work as a screen writer such as the oscar-winning shakespeare in love is no less renown. >> joe wright had adaptation of pride and prejudice and followed up with that successful highly praised world hanna and atonement, i am pleased to have joe wright and tom stoppard here. great to have you back. >> where do you put anna karenina as a great novel? >> well, everybody, it is in everybody's top three or four, it is not where i put it. it is the most wonderful book. i didn't mean to imply i put it in the top 200. i really do think it is one of the dozen great novels. >> rose: because it is a great love story. >> it has everything. >> rose: the history of russia. >> it is actually got at least two-love stories in it. it has a lot about russia as a society, as a political entity, and of course we read the translation and there are several of those now current. but it is the most wonderful control of many events, many characters and the energy in the book is deployed with genius. >>