#media-and-politics

#media-and-politics

He offered the BBC the rights to broadcast it live, but the corporation was nervous. Mandela had been in jail since 1962 and, to the extent that he was a well-known figure, he had been branded a terrorist. Hollingsworth met BBC executive Alan Yentob, who was wavering. Alan, Tony said, you've got to bite the bullet. Eventually Yentob agreed, replying: I'll give you five hours. If the bill improves, I'll increase the time.

In the autumn of 1943, the Gestapo responded to a tipoff that Maria von Maltzan, a German aristocrat and member of the resistance, had a Jew living in her home. Photograph: Ullstein Bild/Getty Images From a diplomat who embraced the exiled Albert Einstein to a schoolteacher who helped non-Aryan students flee, these remarkable individuals refused to bend the knee to Hitler only to be dramatically betrayed. What, asked Jonathan Freedland, in this extract from his new book, The Traitors Circle, made them risk it all?

"One of the exciting aspects of our DVJ program is the ability to bring journalists across a broad range of expertise to campus, thanks to the generosity of our donors. Sam Tanenhaus is one of the premier biographers and storytellers today, and I'm looking forward to the insights he will share with us," said Peter John Loewen , the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.