Free Thinking - Stefan Zweig, Howard Jacobson, Michael Sandle
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Philip Dodd presents a programme for Holocaust Memorial Day. Howard Jacobson discusses reinventing Shylock and exploring anti-semitism as he publishes his new novel. Historian Karen Leeder has been reading about Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth in Ostend 1936 - and a collection of Zweig's writings Messages From a Lost World: Europe on the Brink. Sculptor Michael Sandle is known for creating memorials. He shows Philip Dodd round his new exhibition which marks his 80th year. Key works of his include St George and the Dragon at Blackfriars, the International Maritime Organization Seafarer's Memorial on the Albert Embankment in London, and the Malta Seige Memorial, in the Grand Harbour of Valletta, Malta which includes one of the largest bells ever forged which rings at Noon each day.
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| 0:34.6 | On tonight's programme, Howard Jacobson. |
| 0:37.4 | On my name is Shylock. His new novel, where Shakespeare's |
| 0:40.6 | character finds himself in that rich part of Cheshire, amongst footballers, art collectors, |
| 0:46.1 | and a young TV presenter, Anna, Olivia, Pluribel, Cleopatra, A Thing of Beauty is a |
| 0:50.8 | a Thing Forever, Christine. Not a realist novel then. We also talk |
| 0:56.3 | about the great European writer, at least that's how some seem, Stefan Sveik, in the years before |
| 1:01.4 | the war, as he and other writers, some Jewish, some not, gather together in Ostend in 1936. Plus, |
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