Daniel Snowman
The Contribution of the ‘Hitler Emigrés’ to the BBC in Its Heyday
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Summary
The BBC recently marked its centenary. In this presentation, Daniel Snowman, who worked for the BBC for over 30 years during the post-WWII decades, recalls how his BBC friends and colleagues included an amazing array of refugees and émigrés from Nazi Central Europe, whose collective talent and cultural contributions proved to be far in excess of their numbers.
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”.