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Beyond the Cesspit Beneath: The BBC and the Holocaust

Beyond the Cesspit Beneath: The BBC and the Holocaust
Beyond the Cesspit Beneath: The BBC and the Holocaust
This chapter explores Britain’s relationship to the Holocaust through a discussion of the BBC, arguing that the latter’s attitude mirrors that of British memory more widely. In particular it discusses, I am a Jew (1940) and No Luggage, No Return (1943), two wartime radio drama features which depicted, respectively, Jewish life in Berlin in the wake of the November pogroms of 1938 and the Jewish death in Poland once persecution had turned to extermination. While the first looked at the effect on the victims, the second considered ‘the reaction of atrocity on the men who carry it out’.
243 - 260
Jordan, James
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Pearce, Andy
Lawson, Tom
Jordan, James
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Pearce, Andy
Lawson, Tom

Jordan, James (2021) Beyond the Cesspit Beneath: The BBC and the Holocaust. In, Pearce, Andy and Lawson, Tom (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust. 243 - 260.

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This chapter explores Britain’s relationship to the Holocaust through a discussion of the BBC, arguing that the latter’s attitude mirrors that of British memory more widely. In particular it discusses, I am a Jew (1940) and No Luggage, No Return (1943), two wartime radio drama features which depicted, respectively, Jewish life in Berlin in the wake of the November pogroms of 1938 and the Jewish death in Poland once persecution had turned to extermination. While the first looked at the effect on the victims, the second considered ‘the reaction of atrocity on the men who carry it out’.

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Published date: 20 January 2021

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Local EPrints ID: 457388
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/457388
PURE UUID: 6d8d7799-0374-44bb-a64a-1dbbfe3dbd61

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Date deposited: 06 Jun 2022 16:46
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Author: James Jordan
Editor: Andy Pearce
Editor: Tom Lawson

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