At 7.30am on Monday 2 August 1943, just weeks after the Allied Forces invaded Sicily, a new radio programme aired on the BBC Home Service. ‘ – Mozart’, the running order announced. ‘Programme of Gramophone Records’. Three violin sonatas filled up the 25-minute episode, with soloists Yehudi Menuhin and Szymon Goldberg. Poignantly, on the day when several hundred inmates of the Treblinka extermination camp were of Jewish extraction.
