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‘The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz’ – Interviews with Anne Sebba

Interviews with Anne Sebba

This is a page of links for all those lovely people who have written to me saying “Ah I missed your broadcast where can I find it!”  I would be thrilled if you listened to one of these interviews and then of course read the book to find out more. They are just tasters but I really do believe the story is so important. Thank you to everyone who listens.

With Petroc Trelawney on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune (from about 1 hour 31 mins in)

With Paul O’Doherty at Dublin FM’s Bookbound

With Christian Hunt on the Human Risk Podcast

With Tom Sutcliffe on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row

BBC History Extra podcast

With Jane Garvey on Off Air… With Jane and Fi  podcast on Times Radio

The History Chicks podcast

With Vick Hope on Women’s Prize podcast, Bookshelfie

 

Secrets and spies

Secrets and spies

“IT WAS A QUEER, SULTRY SUMMER, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs … ” So goes the opening sentence of Sylvia Plath’s 1963 novel The Bell Jar, referring to the Jewish American couple, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage and sent to the electric chair exactly 68 years ago today. Their execution casts a morbid shadow over Plath’s book, just as it did over the United States, and it is seen by many as the nadir of America’s engagement with the cold war. The Rosenbergs are still the only Americans ever put to death in peacetime for espionage, and Ethel is the only American woman killed by the US government for a crime other than murder.

Read the full feature here