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The Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast

March 1, 2017: Writer/director Kathy Buchanan tells us the true stories behind "One More Name"

The Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Irena Sendler was a real historical person. Writer Kathy Buchanan had the task of turning her life into an epic three-part Adventures in Odyssey Club story. Find out the challenges of research, writing, and cutting "One More Name."

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Jesse Fanzheim-Bob, producer of the Adventures in Odyssey Club.

0:08.3

And I'm Jesse, editor of Focus on the Family Clubhouse magazine.

0:11.6

Welcome to the official Adventures in Odyssey podcast.

0:14.2

For the last few months in the club, we've been hearing the three-part story one more name.

0:18.6

And today we get to hear from the writer director behind the episode, Odyssey Veteran

0:22.4

Kathy Buchanan.

0:23.4

This episode tells the true life story of a renaissanceeer, a courageous woman who risked her life thousands

0:28.7

of times to rescue Jewish children during World War II.

0:31.7

We sat down with Kathy to talk about finding the story, how she put it together, directing

0:35.9

the show, and more.

0:42.5

Kathy, let's talk about the origin of this three-part episode one more name.

0:46.5

How did you come across this true story?

0:48.8

I was just online one day and the story came up and I read it and I thought that is so interesting,

0:54.2

but that can't be true because everything online isn't necessarily true.

0:58.8

And so I just didn't really believe that I just thought somebody made it up.

1:02.3

But I was intrigued by it and so I started doing some of the research about it and sure

1:05.5

enough, this actually happened.

1:06.8

I ran a sendler, existed, and did this amazing thing during World War II.

1:11.8

Now in a historical show like this, you have to do a ton of research, not just into the

1:17.1

character of a renaissanceeer's life, but also World War II.

1:20.5

What Poland was like, the culture, all that stuff, the Holocaust, some really difficult

1:25.6

stuff to wait through.

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