Art & Refugees from Nazi Germany.
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Following this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day, Anne McElvoy looks at new writing which reflects on this history and at a festival marking the impact on British culture of refugees and artists who fled from the Nazis. Ed Williams from leading marketing firm Edelman sifts through the fall-out from Davos.
Martin Goodman's novel J SS Bach is published in March 2019.
Daniel Snowman's books include The Hitler Emigrés: The Cultural Impact on Britain of Refugees from Nazism.
Monica Bohm-Duchen has edited a book Insiders/Outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their contribution to British visual culture and initiated a festival which is working with 60 nationwide partners including Tate Britain, National Portrait Gallery, London Transport Museum, Pallant House Gallery and Glyndebourne. More information can be found at https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/
Free Thinking past programmes include a debate about historical understandings of the holocaust and interviews with survivors https://bbc.in/2U86TzP
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
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| 0:37.2 | Hello, I'm Anne McHalevoy and this is BBC Radio 3's Arts and Ideas podcast, bringing together leading artists, writers and thinkers, in discussions which try to answer a range of questions, from should we keep pets to what does it mean to belong, or what can Nietzsche teach us? |
| 0:55.5 | So stay with us for one of those conversations, coming up right after this short message. |
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| 1:41.7 | Hello, the question of what immigrants contribute to British culture |
| 1:45.9 | may be a political hot potato today, |
| 1:48.7 | but we'll be looking back to the 1930s and 40s |
| 1:51.6 | to consider the impact of the emigres |
| 1:53.9 | who came to these shores to escape the Nazis. |
| 1:57.4 | We'll also hear from a writer |
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