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Episode 4 - Only Obeying Orders

Episode 4 - Only Obeying Orders

FromNuremberg: The Trial of the Nazi War Criminals


Episode 4 - Only Obeying Orders

FromNuremberg: The Trial of the Nazi War Criminals

ratings:
Length:
21 minutes
Released:
Jan 11, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The victorious Allies have agreed to put the ‘top-notch Nazis’ on trial. But it turns out the Americans have one concept of a trial and the Russians another entirely. And what precisely will these men be charged with – exactly what is ‘A Crime Against Humanity’?

But it isn’t easy to agree a new trial procedure – Russia and France don’t use cross-examination and America is insisting on a charge of Conspiracy, unknown in France. But procedure is nothing compared to the problem of the Four Indictments: they will have to invent new words – ‘Genocide’ enters the language. Starring Forbes Masson as Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, the Chief British prosecutor and Henry Goodman as Iona Nikitchenko, Chief Soviet Prosecutor.

Cast:
The Hon. Diana Ravenscourt - KATE PHILLIPS
Robert H Jackson - JOSEPH MYDELL
Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe - FORBES MASSON
Iona Nikitchenko - HENRY GOODMAN
General Clay - NATHAN WILEY
Vyacheslav Molotov - JASPER BRITTON
Henri Gros - JONATHAN CULLEN
American Colonel - JOSEPH ALESSI
American Major - CLIVE WOOD
American Sergeant - ILAN GOODMAN
Titles - LEWIS MACLEOD

Sound Designer - ADAM WOODHAMS
Studio Manager - MARK SMITH
Casting Director - GINNY SCHILLER
Original Score - METAPHOR MUSIC
Writer and Director - JONATHAN MYERSON
Producer - NICHOLAS NEWTON

A Promenade Production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
Released:
Jan 11, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (18)

The story of the trial of Nazi war criminals following Germany's surrender in 1945.