The Difficult Conversation: The Real Nihal on Helen Bamber’s Mission to Bear Witness | Episode 31
How do you hear the testimony of someone who has been terrorised and tortured? How do you listen as a perpetrator defends their crimes? How can two peoples who have hated and killed each other learn to live in peace?These are the questions Helen Bamber asked herself when she travelled to Belsen at the end of the Second World War and bore witness to survivor memories. She would spend her whole life working with victims of genocide, torture and human trafficking and her questions are as vital today as they were 80 years ago. Tune in for a riveting discussion as the broadcaster and author Nihal Arthanayake joins Oswin, Carla and MK for our season opener on why we need to have these conversations, why listening is as important as talking and why connection is our only hope for the future.
Trapped History tells the stories of the forgotten – of people who have been ignored by the history we’ve been taught in school.
We take our name from something the writer James Baldwin said: “People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.” We want to break people free from those stories.
And so we give you history for the curious, with inspiring and often heart-breaking tales of people who broke the mould with their bravery and defiance.
Co-hosts Oswin and Carla are joined by special guests who help bring those stories to life. People like Mishal Husain, Jeremy Corbyn, Sathnam Sanghera – even Zippo the Clown and Jet from Gladiators! Anyone with a new and different perspective on history.
Going above and beyond national histories or British history, the histories you find in museums or at times or war, Trapped History will reboot your sense of the past.
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