Fate Unknown Series: “The Greatest Detective Story in History” and the Search for Missing Children a

In 1950, Alan Burgess's BBC radio play, The Greatest Detective Story in History, gave unprecedented and moving insight into the work of the International Tracing Service (ITS), particularly with regard to its efforts to find missing children after the Second World War. The play also captures the ways in which the Nazi period was understood in Britain in the post-war years. Part of The Wiener Library's Fate Unknown exhibition series, this event will include a talk by Professor Dan Stone, co-curator of the exhibition, and a dramatic reading of excerpts of the Burgess radio play. To be dramatised by: Alicia Ambrose-Bayly - Alicia trained at The Central School of Speech and Drama. TV and Film credits include: Emmerdale, the lead role in BAFTA long listed film Darklight and the lead in Mongrel Country. Theatre includes a U.K. and Ireland No.1 Tour of A Murder is Announced, a UK No.1 Tour of Kindertransport, Shoot I didn’t Mean That at The National Theatre. Voice works includes First Officer Amelia Curtis in ATA Girl directed by Lou Jameson for Big Finish Productions, Ha'penny in WW2 comedy Dot and Kerry’s List with Kerry Godliman, for BBC Radio 4. Will Hartley - William is best known for his work with award-winning sketch group Clever Peter, with whom he co-wrote and starred in five sell-out Edinburgh Fringe shows, toured nationally, and created a critically acclaimed Radio 4 series, Strap In - It’s Clever Peter (Pozzitive Productions). He has been on screen in The One Griff (BBC) alongside Griff Rhys Jones, as well as E4’s Cardinal Burns, BBC3’s Otherworld, and BAFTA-nominated CBBC sketch show FIT. He recently premiered his one-man comedy Western show, GUN, at the VAULT Festival. Rosie Holden - Rosie trained at Drama Centre London. Her work in theatre includes Each His Own Wilderness (Orange Tree Theatre) Love Me Do (Watford Palace); Mother Courage and Her Children (The Platform Theatre); Kindertransport (UK tour); and After the Ball (Theatre 503). TV includes Father Brown (BBC), Midsomer Murders (ITV) and Lewis (ITV). Film includes Cold Blow Lane and Wrong Turn 5. Steve Wickenden - Steve is an actor/singer/educator based in Kent. His most recent stage work was in the Grand Opera House York’s record-breaking Beauty and the Beast and he is the lead singer of the vintage rock & roll band The Bandits. Steve works in youth theatre and therapeutic drama, implementing workshops for young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties and those from less advantaged backgrounds. He completed a Master’s degree in Holocaust Studies from Royal Holloway, in 2016. Lecture provided by: Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a historian of ideas who works primarily on twentieth-century European history. His research interests include: the history and interpretation of the Holocaust, comparative genocide, history of anthropology, history of fascism, the cultural history of the British Right and theory of history. He is the author or editor of sixteen books and some seventy scholarly articles The play's author: Alan Burgess (1915 - 1998) was an RAF pilot and English author who wrote several biographical and non-fiction books between the 1950s and the 1970s. He wrote biographies of Gladys Aylward and Flora Sandes, and co-wrote Ingrid Bergman's autobiography. Having served in the RAF during World War II, Burgess went on to write The Longest Tunnel: The True Story of World War II's Great Escape, the story of "the Great Escape."

Suitable for
18+
16-17
Any age

Admission
£5, purchase tickets via The Wiener Library

Website
https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/Whats-On?item=385

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/am52233?id=EVENT583358