The Ratline - Bonus: Stephen Fry meets Philippe Sands
Intrigue
BBC
4.6 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.3 | Thank you so much for sticking with me on the Rat Line for ten podcasts. |
| 0:08.0 | This is an extra episode and it's a bit different. |
| 0:11.2 | It's sort of a glimpse behind the scenes. |
| 0:14.0 | A few weeks ago I met Otto Vector in person. |
| 0:17.6 | Well, not quite. |
| 0:19.0 | The man who reads Otto's voice so brilliantly in our podcast, Stephen Fry. |
| 0:24.0 | Stephen interviewed me at the BBC's Broadcasting House in London |
| 0:28.0 | and then he took questions from the audience. |
| 0:30.0 | I hope you might be interested in our conversation. |
| 0:33.0 | So here are some highlights. |
| 0:35.0 | APPLAUSE |
| 0:41.0 | I'd like to be here. |
| 0:42.0 | For some, it's hard to take that the point of view of a Nazi is being given. |
| 0:50.0 | To me, what's so interesting about being... |
| 0:54.0 | Well, my grandfather used to say it's very easy to have a name like Goldberg. |
| 0:58.0 | But imagine if your name was Himmler. |
| 1:00.0 | It's actually a terrible thing to be descended from a war criminal, |
| 1:05.0 | from someone who was responsible for one of the worst crimes that humanity has ever perpetrated. |
| 1:10.0 | And you can go two ways. |
| 1:12.0 | One is to become an absolute fanatical anti-Nazi, |
| 1:15.0 | into abominate your father's name. |
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