Daniel Snowman
Just Passing Through: Interactions with the World 1938-2021
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Summary
Daniel Snowman’s long and active life has led him to interact in countless ways with the wider world and with some of its most famous inhabitants. In this presentation, Daniel shares these experiences via a series of vividly illustrated vignettes, from his Jewish childhood during and after World War II to life at Cambridge and in JFK’s America, to watching Churchill deliver his last public speech and working at the BBC in its heyday, to visiting Castro’s Cuba and the Arctic and Antarctic, meeting Pope John-Paul II, and many other astounding stories.
Daniel Snowman
Daniel Snowman is a social and cultural historian. Born in London to a Jewish family in 1938 and educated at Cambridge and Cornell, Daniel became a lecturer at the University of Sussex and went on to work for many years at the BBC as senior producer of radio features and documentaries. A senior research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research (University of London), his many books include a social history of opera and a study of the cultural impact of the ‘Hitler Emigrés’ and, most recently, his memoir “Just Passing Through: Interactions with the World 1938-2021”.