TAI: Nicholas Winton

yesterday evening (tuesday 9th), 9.30-10.00pm, on bbc 4 tv (repeated from 11.30pm, 4.30pm, and 5.30am, saturday 6th, on bbc news tv)

sir anthony hopkins (presented by katie razzall) (in the the arts interviews series) 

“Celebrated actors Sir Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn, along with survivors of the Kindertransport, reflect on the new film One Life, which tells the remarkable story of Sir Nicholas Winton.”

including interview with …

• actor anthony hopkins

• actor johnny flynn

• kinder renate collins

• kinder alexandra greenstead

• son nick winton

TIYL: Nicholas Winton

yesterday evening (tuesday 9th), 9.00-9.30pm (repeated from may 2003), on bbc 4 tv  

sir nicholas winton (presented by michael aspel) (episode 14, series 43, in the this is your life series) 

“Michael Aspel awards the big red book to Nicholas Winton, the humanitarian who helped to save hundreds of Jewish children from the Nazis in 1939 Prague.”

including interview with …       

• alice klimova

• craig stapleton, former us ambassador to czech republic

• vera gissing 1928-2022, author, pearls of childhood

• alf dubs1932-

• theresa may mp

• esther rantzen

• joe schlesinger

KM: Trevor Chadwick

last sunday morning (22nd january), 6.00am (2 minutes), on bbc radio solent 

katie martin includes …

“Holocaust Memorial Day: Trevor Chadwick from Swanage was the Purbeck Schindler.”

including interview with

• john corben, trevor chadwick memorial trust 

Nd: Refugees in Prague

this morning (friday 18th), 5.19-5.24am, on bbc world service radio 

newsday (presented by sana safi) includes …

“And we’ll hear about the Jewish community in the Czech Republic rallying to support Ukrainian Jewish refugees there.”

including interview with …

• teresa ivanova, lauder schools, prague 

Nd/Today: Scroll returns

this morning (monday 27th), 6.51-6.55am on bbc world service radio, and 7.06-7.07am on bbc radio 4 

newsday (presented by clare mcdonnell) and today (presented by nick robinson) include …

“Later today, there’ll be a ceremony at Charles University to mark the return to Prague of one of the Torah scrolls looted by the Nazis during the Holocaust.”

including contributions from …

• rabbi david maxa, ec chaim synagogue 

• bbc reporter rob cameron 

Outlook: Dita Kraus

this afternoon (wednesday 26th), 12.06-12.50pm (repeated 6.06pm and 3.06am, and repeated from january 2020), on bbc world service radio

outlook (presented by emily webb) almost entirely deals with …

“Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus is now 90 years old, but she was only 14 when she was taken to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in Poland. She worked in the children’s hut, and has written a book about her experience called A Delayed Life: The true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz.

The Windermere Children: In their own words

yesterday evening (monday 27th), 10.30-11.30pm (repeated 2.30am), on bbc 4 tv  

the windermere children: in their own words (narrated by iain glen)

including windermere children … • ike alterman, • sam laskier, • arek hersh, • ben helfgott, • harry spiro, • jan goldberger, harry olmer, • bela rosenthal (joanna millan) (then 3), and • zdenka husserl (then 3)

and … • historian trevor avery, • historian tony kushner, • raf flight sergeant norman shepherd, • lydia tischler, and sons • ashley faull and steven faull

(if you missed it, available at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000dt7g/the-windermere-children-in-their-own-words)

Outlook: Dita Kraus

this evening (thursday 23rd), 6.06-6.50pm (repeated from 1.06pm), on bbc world service radio

outlook (presented by emily webb) almost entirely deals with …

“Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus is now 90 years old, but she was only 14 when she was taken to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in Poland. She worked in the children’s hut, and has written a book about her experience called A Delayed Life: The true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz.

Nh: Prague gravestones

this afternoon (saturday 23rd), 2.44-2.48pm (repeated 9.20pm), on bbc world service radio 

newshour (presented by razia iqbal) includes …

“One particular street in Prague’s Old Town has long been thought to be partially cobbled with fragments of Jewish gravestones taken from abandoned cemeteries during the communist era. This week there has been confirmation of that as the city of Prague signed a memorandum with the Jewish community on returning the stones so that they can be put in a more appropriate place.“

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter rob cameron 

• františek banyai, head of the prague jewish community

• researcher martin smok

FOOC: Prague photo

this morning (saturday 10th), 11.54-11.59am, on bbc radio 4 

from our own correspondent (presented by kate adie) concludes with …

“A group of child orphans who survived the Nazi concentration camps and were resettled in Britain became known as The Boys, even though there were girls among them. They formed new communities in the UK and thrived. Hannah Gelbart, the grand daughter of one of them, reports on a special reunion in Prague.”