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Kindertransport Bonus Feature: Interview with Hilda Fogelson Dec 31, 2023

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Hear our interview with Kindertransport survivor Hilda Fogelson, recorded in 2013.

Sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

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Kindertransport (Part 4) Dec 31, 2023

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This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Diane Samuels’ play about families, secrets and survival takes us to the days of the impending Holocaust. As conditions deteriorated in Germany in the 1930s, many tried in vain to escape. But thanks to a British humanitarian effort, about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and neighboring countries were relocated to live with families in the United Kingdom, while their parents stayed behind. This passage to freedom became known as Kindertransport.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in June 2013.

Directed by Jeanie Hackett

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Jane Kaczmarek as Helga

Hugo Armstrong as Ratcatcher/Others

Shannon Lee Clair as Eva

Angela Paton as Lil

Molly C. Quinn as Faith

Susan Sullivan as Evelyn

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Kindertransport (Part 3) Dec 31, 2023

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This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in June 2013.

Directed by Jeanie Hackett

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Jane Kaczmarek as Helga

Hugo Armstrong as Ratcatcher/Others

Shannon Lee Clair as Eva

Angela Paton as Lil

Molly C. Quinn as Faith

Susan Sullivan as Evelyn

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Kindertransport (Part 2) Dec 31, 2023

Show notes

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in June 2013.

Directed by Jeanie Hackett

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Jane Kaczmarek as Helga

Hugo Armstrong as Ratcatcher/Others

Shannon Lee Clair as Eva

Angela Paton as Lil

Molly C. Quinn as Faith

Susan Sullivan as Evelyn

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Kindertransport (Part 1) Dec 31, 2023

Show notes

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in June 2013.

Directed by Jeanie Hackett

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Jane Kaczmarek as Helga

Hugo Armstrong as Ratcatcher/Others

Shannon Lee Clair as Eva

Angela Paton as Lil

Molly C. Quinn as Faith

Susan Sullivan as Evelyn

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Native Guard (Part 3) Dec 06, 2023

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This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Based on Natasha Trethewey’s collection of poems, The Alliance Theatre’s production of Native Guard is both an elegy to her mother and a journey into Mississippi’s Civil War history. Trethewey’s work was the winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. This recording was produced with the generous support of The Poetry Foundation.

Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in July 2018.

Directed by Rosalind Ayres

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Neal A. Ghant as The Native Guard

January LaVoy as The Poet

Nicole Banks Long as Vocalist

Tyrone Jackson as Keyboard/Composer/Music Director

Associate Artistic Director: Anna Lyse Erikson

Associate Producer, Studio Production Coordinator, and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

Production Assistant: Amanda Allen

Recording Engineer: Erick Cifuentes

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Native Guard (Part 2) Dec 06, 2023

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This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in July 2018.

Directed by Rosalind Ayres

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Neal A. Ghant as The Native Guard

January LaVoy as The Poet

Nicole Banks Long as Vocalist

Tyrone Jackson as Keyboard/Composer/Music Director

Associate Artistic Director: Anna Lyse Erikson

Associate Producer, Studio Production Coordinator, and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

Production Assistant: Amanda Allen

Recording Engineer: Erick Cifuentes

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Native Guard (Part 1) Dec 06, 2023

Show notes

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in July 2018.

Directed by Rosalind Ayres

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Neal A. Ghant as The Native Guard

January LaVoy as The Poet

Nicole Banks Long as Vocalist

Tyrone Jackson as Keyboard/Composer/Music Director

Associate Artistic Director: Anna Lyse Erikson

Associate Producer, Studio Production Coordinator, and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

Production Assistant: Amanda Allen

Recording Engineer: Erick Cifuentes

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Judgment at Nuremberg Bonus Feature: Interview with Judge Bruce Einhorn Nov 23, 2023

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This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Hear our conversation with Judge Bruce Einhorn, who served at the Justice Department supervising litigation against Nazi war criminals. Recorded at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in September 2015 after a performance of the play.

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Judgment at Nuremberg (Part 4) Nov 23, 2023

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This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Abby Mann’s classic story about the Nuremberg trials, under which German leaders were found guilty of crimes against humanity in 1945 and 1946. Even today, the play remains a shattering indictment of the consequences of unchecked authority and the seductive power of group thought.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The UCLA James Bridges Theater in September 2015.

Honorary Executive Producer: David Kavner. Special thanks to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios.

Directed by Shannon Cochran

Ryan Vincent Anderson as Captain Byers/Narrator/Others

Michael Canavan as Dr. Wickert/Dr. Geuter

Jake Green as Judge Norris/Hoffstetter/Rudolph Peterson

Harry Hamlin as Emil Hahn/General Merrin

Shannon Holt as Mrs. Halbestadt/Elsa Lindow

Alan Mandell as Judge Ives/Werner Lammpe

James Morrison as Judge Dan Haywood

David Selby as Colonel Parker

Kate Steele as Margarete Bertholt/Maria