353 Telling the Stories of the Monuments Men; Doc Martin in Cornwall
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
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🗓️ 1 February 2014
⏱️ 53 minutes
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The heroic efforts of Allied troops known as The Monuments Men are about to be depicted in a major motion picture. Hear how the film's co-author and producer was inspired to tell their story, and how the effort to recover important works of art stolen by the Nazis in World War Two continues today as a work in progress. Plus, the star of the Doc Martin TV series tells us what it's like to film the show in a fishing village on the coast of Cornwall.
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| 0:00.0 | There's a lot we can still learn about World War II. You know Hitler at first is a |
| 0:05.0 | failed artist and in a certain way it comes full circle. Coming up today on |
| 0:09.7 | travel with Rick Steves we take a fresh look at the stories of the |
| 0:12.8 | monuments men. Without their bravery the world may well have lost the Mona Lisa |
| 0:17.1 | and hundreds of other works that define Western art. The fingerprint of these |
| 0:21.2 | remarkable men and women who risk their lives, two of whom were killed during combat, impacts the cultural world we enjoy today. |
| 0:29.0 | And I think we owe them a great debt of gratitude. |
| 0:31.0 | We'll hear how their stories are being told in a major motion |
| 0:34.2 | picture filmed on location in Germany. And a fishing village in England is |
| 0:38.7 | attracting fans of a TV series where the show's location is a big part of the charm. |
| 0:43.8 | They've now got people coming outside of the short summer season here. |
| 0:47.8 | They have people from all over the world coming to visit because of Doc Martin and |
| 0:51.2 | things. |
| 0:52.2 | Actor Martin Clunes tells us what it's like to film Doc Martin in Cornwall. |
| 0:56.1 | It's all just ahead on Travel with Rick Steves. |
| 0:59.8 | One of the most charming drama series airing on public TV takes place in a simple village, a fishing |
| 1:04.4 | village on the Cornish coast of the south of England. |
| 1:07.6 | Coming up today on Travel with Rick Steve's, the star of Doc Martin tells us what it's like |
| 1:11.6 | to make his TV series on location where some of |
| 1:14.7 | his American fans might even get to be an extra in a scene. But first, it's 70 years now |
| 1:20.0 | since the Nazis systematically looted the art and treasures of churches, museums, and Jewish |
| 1:24.9 | families in Europe. Many of the famous artworks that we stand in line to see today wouldn't |
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