This series of The History Podcast, The House at Number 48 creeps up on you and peels back a dark period in European history.
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| Mr. & Mrs Bux, undated but circa 1930s |
"After the death of his enigmatic and distant father, Antony Easton finally gets to go through his Dad's secret suitcase: 'This was his life,' Antony says.
As he forensically trawls through its contents, Antony discovers a series of clues which are about to change his life forever.
And, after decades, a woman from Antony's childhood gets in touch. For her, time is running out. She says she must see him one last time...
The House at Number 48 is presented by Charlie Northcott.
The series producer is Jim Frank.
Sound design and mixing by Tom Brignell.
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| Family, undated |
The Editor is Matt Willis".
And having just binge listened to all ten episodes I can confirm it is a fascinating and at times frightening account.
It is part detective story, and part the human tragedy of a Jewish family dispossed of almost all they possesed by the Nazis, who managed to escape from Germany via Czechoslovakia and Poland to Britain.
At each stage the family were just one step a head of the German army, arriving in Prague just months before the country was occupied and having settled in Warsaw they left just weeks before the invasion in September 1939.
Leaving me just to explain the choice of images.
The pictures accompanying the BBC series is not mine to use, and instead I chose two from the German side of our family who have no connection to the story other than that they were German and against the Nazis.
Location; Radio 4
Picture; the Bux family from the Simpson Collection
*The House At Number 48, The History Podcast, Radio 4, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002l45x
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