Andrew Davies, master of the literary adaptation, has now turned his attention to the imposing edifice that is War and Peace – and declared it “a doddle”.This is not the hubristic statement it might seem. War and Peace (first episode on 3 January) may be vast, with a huge list of characters, but it is not a difficult read, at least until you get to the philosophical parts. Having acquainted himself with the novel by thumbing through it on the beach – according to the Daily Mail – Davies has boiled it down into six hours of television (the BBC’s 1972 version took 13). And he has done it rather well.This first episode started, as the book does, at a St Petersburg soirée, where the assembled socialites were discussing the coming war. We were introdu