Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, a British stockbroker worked tirelessly to rescue hundreds of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia by transporting them to new lives in Britain. Nicholas Winton's life and achievements are the subject of a new film // One Life //, and ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day, Edward Abel Smith joins Spencer Mizen to discuss his story.

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