Episodes
Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
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Genome: [r4 Bd=19901217] | Unknown: Wladislaw Piasecki Producers: Andy Piasecki | |
Genome: [r4 Bd=19901217] | Unknown: Wladislaw Piasecki Producers: Andy Piasecki | |
Genome: [r4 Bd=19910328] | Wladislaw Piasecki sells newspapers at a Surrey station these days. As a young man in Poland, fifty years ago, a brush with the Gestapo led to a turbulent journey across Europe to Britain. Producer Piers Plowright. Stereo ContributorsUnknown: Wladislaw PiaseckiProducer: Piers Plowright. | |
Genome: [r4 Bd=19910328] | Wladislaw Piasecki sells newspapers at a Surrey station these days. As a young man in Poland, fifty years ago, a brush with the Gestapo led to a turbulent journey across Europe to Britain. Producer Piers Plowright. Stereo ContributorsUnknown: Wladislaw PiaseckiProducer: Piers Plowright. | |
Genome: [r4 Bd=19910328] | Unknown: Wladislaw Piasecki Producer: Piers Plowright. | |
Genome: [r4 Bd=19910328] | Unknown: Wladislaw Piasecki Producer: Piers Plowright. | |
Programme Catalogue - Details: 19901217 | 19901217 | BBC Programme Number: 45SX0730 Recorded on 1990-06-25 Producer: PIASECKI, Andy Notes: CAIRS 450730 Description SBH:`Snapshots' from the life of news vendor Wladislaw Piasecki, who came to Britain after WWII. A brush with the Gestapo in his native Poland led him on a turbulent journey via Yugoslavia, Greece and Italy. Compiled and devised by Andy Piasecki. Produced by Piers Plowright. PRE:Caught by Gestapo whilst saving his sister, who was out during the curfew. Shipped to Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece to repair bridges, etc. for German army. Anecdote about saving Greek girl, whose family befriended him. Escaped to Italy; returned to Greece to fight behind the lines. Life in England; his family. Job as newsagent. Not been naturalised British - likes his nationality. People would still call him a foreigner. Broadcast history 17 Dec 1990 00:00-00:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Piers Plowright (Producer) Andy Piasecki (Producer) Wladislaw Piasecki (Speaker) |
Programme Catalogue - Station | Radio 4 |