Setting The Past Free

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Part I, Mark Lawson explores the retellings of one of the most controversial stories to emerge from the Holocaust

20160317

For some Rudolf Kastner is a hero, for others a traitor. Mark Lawson explores the cultural retellings of a story that began in Nazi occupied Hungary in 1944. At the time Kastner, a lawyer and a journalist, was deputy chairman of the Relief and Rescue Committee. His negotiations with Adolf Eichmann, the man responsible for the deportation and extermination of the Jewish communities in Europe, saved Jewish lives but did he pay for them with other Jewish lives?

This question has been the subject of court trials, books, poetry, documentaries, television dramas, and plays - each one retelling Kastner's story from a new perspective. Two of those cultural retellings, one in the UK - the 1987 play Perdition, and the other in Israel - the 1994 television drama The Kastner Trial, managed to make headlines of their own.

And still the retellings continue with one of Israel's most celebrated playwrights, Motti Lerner, in the process of writing a new version of Kastner's story. The new play will be staged at Israel's National Theatre in 2017, thirty years after Jim Allen's play, Perdition, led to one of the most incendiary episodes in British theatre history.

In part 1, Mark Lawson talks to those outside Israel - including the film director Ken Loach, the historian Professor Derborah Lipstadt, and the theatre critic Michael Billington - who have wrestled with Kastner's story and the issues it raises.

Presenter - Mark Lawson

Interviewed Guest - Dr Yaacov Lozowick

Interviewed Guest - Ken Loach

Interviewed Guest - Michael Billington

Interviewed Guest - Professor Deborah Lipstadt

Interviewed Guest - Gaylen Ross

Translator - Rotem Carmeli

Actor - Cokey Falkow

Producer - Ekene Akalawu.

Mark Lawson on how the story of Rudolf Kastner has been retold outside Israel.

Mark Lawson explores the cultural retellings of the story of Rudolf Kastner.

Part I, Mark Lawson explores the retellings of one of the most controversial stories to emerge from the Holocaust

20160317

20160829 (R4)

Presenter - Mark Lawson

Interviewed Guest - Dr Yaacov Lozowick

Interviewed Guest - Ken Loach

Interviewed Guest - Michael Billington

Interviewed Guest - Professor Deborah Lipstadt

Interviewed Guest - Gaylen Ross

Translator - Rotem Carmeli

Actor - Cokey Falkow

Producer - Ekene Akalawu.

Mark Lawson on how the story of Rudolf Kastner has been retold outside Israel.

Mark Lawson explores the cultural retellings of the story of Rudolf Kastner.

Part II, Mark Lawson on how the story of Rudolf Kastner, the Jew who negotiated with Eichmann, continues to be retold

20160324

In part 2, Mark Lawson talks to those, within Israel - including the playwright Motti Lerner, the Chief Historian of Yad Vashem Professor Dina Porat, and the literary critic Professor Dan Laor - who have wrestled with Kastner's story and the issues it raises.

Presenter - Mark Lawson

Interviewed Guest - Motti Lerner

Interviewed Guest - Ilan Ronen

Interviewed Guest - Professor Dan Laor

Interviewed Guest - Professor Dina Porat

Interviewed Guest - Gaylen Ross

Actor - James Puddephatt

Actor - Gemma Paige North

Actor - Cokey Falkow

Poem reader - Dr Omer Edhan

Producer - Ekene Akalawu.

Mark Lawson explores how the story of Rudolf Kastner has been retold within Israel.

Mark Lawson explores the cultural retellings of the story of Rudolf Kastner.

Part II, Mark Lawson on how the story of Rudolf Kastner, the Jew who negotiated with Eichmann, continues to be retold

20160324

20160905 (R4)

Presenter - Mark Lawson

Interviewed Guest - Motti Lerner

Interviewed Guest - Ilan Ronen

Interviewed Guest - Professor Dan Laor

Interviewed Guest - Professor Dina Porat

Interviewed Guest - Gaylen Ross

Actor - James Puddephatt

Actor - Gemma Paige North

Actor - Cokey Falkow

Poem reader - Dr Omer Edhan

Producer - Ekene Akalawu.

Mark Lawson explores how the story of Rudolf Kastner has been retold within Israel.

Mark Lawson explores the cultural retellings of the story of Rudolf Kastner.

Episodes

Episode	Title	First Broadcast	Repeated	Comments
01	Part I, Mark Lawson explores the retellings of one of the most controversial stories to emerge from the Holocaust	20160317		For some Rudolf Kastner is a hero, for others a traitor. Mark Lawson explores the cultural retellings of a story that began in Nazi occupied Hungary in 1944. At the time Kastner, a lawyer and a journalist, was deputy chairman of the Relief and Rescue Committee. His negotiations with Adolf Eichmann, the man responsible for the deportation and extermination of the Jewish communities in Europe, saved Jewish lives but did he pay for them with other Jewish lives? This question has been the subject of court trials, books, poetry, documentaries, television dramas, and plays - each one retelling Kastner's story from a new perspective. Two of those cultural retellings, one in the UK - the 1987 play Perdition, and the other in Israel - the 1994 television drama The Kastner Trial, managed to make headlines of their own. And still the retellings continue with one of Israel's most celebrated playwrights, Motti Lerner, in the process of writing a new version of Kastner's story. The new play will be staged at Israel's National Theatre in 2017, thirty years after Jim Allen's play, Perdition, led to one of the most incendiary episodes in British theatre history. In part 1, Mark Lawson talks to those outside Israel - including the film director Ken Loach, the historian Professor Derborah Lipstadt, and the theatre critic Michael Billington - who have wrestled with Kastner's story and the issues it raises. Presenter - Mark Lawson Interviewed Guest - Dr Yaacov Lozowick Interviewed Guest - Ken Loach Interviewed Guest - Michael Billington Interviewed Guest - Professor Deborah Lipstadt Interviewed Guest - Gaylen Ross Translator - Rotem Carmeli Actor - Cokey Falkow Producer - Ekene Akalawu. Mark Lawson on how the story of Rudolf Kastner has been retold outside Israel. Mark Lawson explores the cultural retellings of the story of Rudolf Kastner.
01	Part I, Mark Lawson explores the retellings of one of the most controversial stories to emerge from the Holocaust	20160317	20160829 (R4)	For some Rudolf Kastner is a hero, for others a traitor. Mark Lawson explores the cultural retellings of a story that began in Nazi occupied Hungary in 1944. At the time Kastner, a lawyer and a journalist, was deputy chairman of the Relief and Rescue Committee. His negotiations with Adolf Eichmann, the man responsible for the deportation and extermination of the Jewish communities in Europe, saved Jewish lives but did he pay for them with other Jewish lives? This question has been the subject of court trials, books, poetry, documentaries, television dramas, and plays - each one retelling Kastner's story from a new perspective. Two of those cultural retellings, one in the UK - the 1987 play Perdition, and the other in Israel - the 1994 television drama The Kastner Trial, managed to make headlines of their own. And still the retellings continue with one of Israel's most celebrated playwrights, Motti Lerner, in the process of writing a new version of Kastner's story. The new play will be staged at Israel's National Theatre in 2017, thirty years after Jim Allen's play, Perdition, led to one of the most incendiary episodes in British theatre history. In part 1, Mark Lawson talks to those outside Israel - including the film director Ken Loach, the historian Professor Derborah Lipstadt, and the theatre critic Michael Billington - who have wrestled with Kastner's story and the issues it raises. Presenter - Mark Lawson Interviewed Guest - Dr Yaacov Lozowick Interviewed Guest - Ken Loach Interviewed Guest - Michael Billington Interviewed Guest - Professor Deborah Lipstadt Interviewed Guest - Gaylen Ross Translator - Rotem Carmeli Actor - Cokey Falkow Producer - Ekene Akalawu. Mark Lawson on how the story of Rudolf Kastner has been retold outside Israel. Mark Lawson explores the cultural retellings of the story of Rudolf Kastner.
02	Part II, Mark Lawson on how the story of Rudolf Kastner, the Jew who negotiated with Eichmann, continues to be retold	20160324		For some Rudolf Kastner is a hero, for others a traitor. Mark Lawson explores the cultural retellings of a story that began in Nazi occupied Hungary in 1944. At the time Kastner, a lawyer and a journalist, was deputy chairman of the Relief and Rescue Committee. His negotiations with Adolf Eichmann, the man responsible for the deportation and extermination of the Jewish communities in Europe, saved Jewish lives but did he pay for them with other Jewish lives? This question has been the subject of court trials, books, poetry, documentaries, television dramas, and plays - each one retelling Kastner's story from a new perspective. Two of those cultural retellings, one in the UK - the 1987 play Perdition, and the other in Israel - the 1994 television drama The Kastner Trial, managed to make headlines of their own. And still the retellings continue with one of Israel's most celebrated playwrights, Motti Lerner, in the process of writing a new version of Kastner's story. The new play will be staged at Israel's National Theatre in 2017, thirty years after Jim Allen's play, Perdition, led to one of the most incendiary episodes in British theatre history. In part 2, Mark Lawson talks to those, within Israel - including the playwright Motti Lerner, the Chief Historian of Yad Vashem Professor Dina Porat, and the literary critic Professor Dan Laor - who have wrestled with Kastner's story and the issues it raises. Presenter - Mark Lawson Interviewed Guest - Motti Lerner Interviewed Guest - Ilan Ronen Interviewed Guest - Professor Dan Laor Interviewed Guest - Professor Dina Porat Interviewed Guest - Gaylen Ross Actor - James Puddephatt Actor - Gemma Paige North Actor - Cokey Falkow Poem reader - Dr Omer Edhan Producer - Ekene Akalawu. Mark Lawson explores how the story of Rudolf Kastner has been retold within Israel. Mark Lawson explores the cultural retellings of the story of Rudolf Kastner.
02	Part II, Mark Lawson on how the story of Rudolf Kastner, the Jew who negotiated with Eichmann, continues to be retold	20160324	20160905 (R4)	For some Rudolf Kastner is a hero, for others a traitor. Mark Lawson explores the cultural retellings of a story that began in Nazi occupied Hungary in 1944. At the time Kastner, a lawyer and a journalist, was deputy chairman of the Relief and Rescue Committee. His negotiations with Adolf Eichmann, the man responsible for the deportation and extermination of the Jewish communities in Europe, saved Jewish lives but did he pay for them with other Jewish lives? This question has been the subject of court trials, books, poetry, documentaries, television dramas, and plays - each one retelling Kastner's story from a new perspective. Two of those cultural retellings, one in the UK - the 1987 play Perdition, and the other in Israel - the 1994 television drama The Kastner Trial, managed to make headlines of their own. And still the retellings continue with one of Israel's most celebrated playwrights, Motti Lerner, in the process of writing a new version of Kastner's story. The new play will be staged at Israel's National Theatre in 2017, thirty years after Jim Allen's play, Perdition, led to one of the most incendiary episodes in British theatre history. In part 2, Mark Lawson talks to those, within Israel - including the playwright Motti Lerner, the Chief Historian of Yad Vashem Professor Dina Porat, and the literary critic Professor Dan Laor - who have wrestled with Kastner's story and the issues it raises. Presenter - Mark Lawson Interviewed Guest - Motti Lerner Interviewed Guest - Ilan Ronen Interviewed Guest - Professor Dan Laor Interviewed Guest - Professor Dina Porat Interviewed Guest - Gaylen Ross Actor - James Puddephatt Actor - Gemma Paige North Actor - Cokey Falkow Poem reader - Dr Omer Edhan Producer - Ekene Akalawu. Mark Lawson explores how the story of Rudolf Kastner has been retold within Israel. Mark Lawson explores the cultural retellings of the story of Rudolf Kastner.