Escaping Hitler and Stalin
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Daniel Finkelstein, Times columnist and friend of the podcast, tells the story of his parents' remarkable journey from the Soviet Gulags and the Nazi concentration camps of World War II to safety in north London.
Matt joins him at the Wiener Holocaust Library, home to his grandfather's archive documenting the Nazi rise to power, to discuss his book Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival.
Plus Manveen Rana and Matt Frei discuss what Rishi Sunak achieved on his trip to Washington, what Caroline Lucas achieved as the only Green MP, and London Mayor Sadiq Khan explains what it's like throwing a pitch at a baseball game.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Red Box Podcast, bringing you the best of my times at a show you can |
| 0:07.6 | listen live on your radio, weekdays from 10 o'clock, 10 till 1, on a DB radio, on your |
| 0:13.4 | smartspeaker, or on the Times radio app, coming up on today's episode, at his story |
| 0:18.4 | interview at the full uncut interview that I've done with Daniel Fingleston, regular |
| 0:22.7 | on the podcast, times columnist concerto peer, friend of the show, and friend of mine. |
| 0:27.0 | And he's written a new book called Hitler Starlin' Mum and Dad, it's the extraordinary |
| 0:32.5 | story of how his mum as a child survived Hitler and Belson before arriving safely in |
| 0:41.0 | the UK. While his dad grew up in what is now LeViv was taken to Siberia by the Soviets |
| 0:47.5 | and survived all of that to find his way to the UK. It's an extraordinary story, an |
| 0:53.3 | interview with Danny coming up in just a moment. But first, as we always do, on the |
| 0:57.9 | start of the podcast, let's take a look at what's happening in the news with today's |
| 1:01.5 | columnists, Manvine Rana, and someone called Matthew on Times radio. Yes, it's the Thursday |
| 1:10.5 | columnist panel where we take a look at the news with Manvine Rana, Morning Manvine, nice |
| 1:14.7 | to have you in rather than beaming in on Zoom. I know, I know, I was in Ireland last week |
| 1:18.2 | on a phone, but this is a nice push. And this week's Matthew is, from how we see |
| 1:23.9 | your telephone news, Matt Fry. Does anyone call you Matthew? No one. No one's working. |
| 1:28.4 | And that's a really cross with me and they, you know, they don't want to really upset |
| 1:31.0 | me. I don't really, I don't mind. My real name is Matthias or Matthias. Is it? When they |
| 1:35.0 | see it, no, you can't spell it after me. So you're going to have to leave if you're not |
| 1:38.6 | even a Matthew on your phone. Matthew, no, I'm sorry, but what are you? I'm a Matthew |
| 1:42.7 | on the passport and with my gram. I'm a Matthew on the passport. That's a good |
| 1:46.8 | chat out loud. Or maybe not. Right. So let's talk about, wish you soon in the United |
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