Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment was a novel by Dostoevsky. In 1904, Vislor Turlough read the book over at least two days on a train to St Petersburg, on the trans-Siberia railway. He spent the whole time in an armchair, reading Crime and Punishment, or exchanging brief muted conversations in the lounge car, book still in hand, before returning to his reading. (PROSE: Gudok)

Behind the scenes

The image of John Hurt as Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment (1979) used for the newly-regenerated War Doctor.

• The archive image for the young War Doctor in The Night of the Doctor was from the BBC's 1979 TV adaptation of Crime and Punishment, in which a thirty-nine-year-old John Hurt played Rodion Raskolnikov. (REF: DWMSE 38) The BBC itself later revealed which shot it was.