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is called spectrum. if you would like any information on the chrono, large response or any on their science topic, you should really check out our podcast. you can get it wherever you get your podcast. you can also find us at one slash sign. hello, i'm welcome a lot of significant anniversaries on this edition of boats and culture. november the 20th is world children's day, and this year is also the 100th anniversary of save the children international. also coming up, this is booker prize, is awarded to 1st time author, douglas, for his novel shuggie bank. and it is 75 years since the nuremberg trials started a look at the city day and what's happening to the building still standing there
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constructed. 'd every year since $959.00 of the 20th has been world children's day, it was created by the united nations in conjunction with the declaration of children's rights 1st introduced all mapped day in 959. the global charity save the children itself celebrating 100 years since it was founded. as published a book featuring stories of children who grew up in war zones and were helped by save the children. the book tells 11 stories of 11 children in conflict, the 100 years of save the children. for the projects i'm alive and i took photos of 11 people could have been all of whom were children in the disk is a 3000 cell 6 story
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god, it doesn't matter if you're in germany or cambodia or one down there being a child in conflict is always the sign the survivors represent the key conflicts of the past century around the world. the project started with a mom, a syrian refugees living in lebanon, a model. somalia is very important for us because she was the 1st one we photographed of another place. it was exciting to see her transformation as me and she became more and more alive. the more photos i took of her india was a child of world war one. was there surely it was wonderful to work with heavy heart 106 year old ashton, he just stood there and he's changed looking like a young man being human. i was given d.n.a. reality is everywhere. at some point has known war before i wanted to bring back that reality bring. the book shows the scots left. i was
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a decades past. he shifted from cambodia. story is often forgotten. i guess the vision to convey the shooter knows how to tell the story. the 53 year old escaped the cambodian genocide and is now a human rights lawyer put in this. what links the protagonists is that they all had a connection to save the children. and so we can show the world the biggest story of war and children in your hands, like it was interesting taking photos of the different generations of not only to tell their stories, but also to us. they survived a few 100 years, the 10 people plus a baby born this year of the one baby regina i wrote in chicago, born in a refugee camp in fact, which is the 11th child in the book and a symbol of hope for a future without children involved and
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joining me is my colleague scott rock from scott, you actually had personal involvement in this book project? yes, i was brought on much later. the very good end of it. i did some translation english translation of the book. and yesterday there was the book launch here in berlin, and i moderated sort of the press conference, which was quite amazing because we were able to have many of the survivors connected via from around the world. so jose from colombia was, was on the line. and also we saw on the piece of a truly from, from cambodia who survived the camaro and is now a human rights lawyer in cambodia was pretty sick of the images of striking but walked sense this project apart from writing. i think it's the idea behind it, which is that they want to show the survivors of conflict survivors of war differently. i mean, if you look at how most, almost n.g.o.s, most people,
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the media, when we talk about children in war zones, we show suffering victims. so we show the devastation and then the horrors of war. and critics would say that if you only show those images of children like that in those horrible situations that you sort of to humanize them, that they're only defined by the suffering that they've, they've gone through. and the idea of this book was to show them in a different way. so if you take the images on the cover of the book amal, she's a, a refugee from syria. she lives in a refugee camp in lebanon. but look at this image. i mean, she should always be a fashion model. she looks like a beautiful confident, strong young girl, and this is how she wanted to be depicted. so the idea behind this book is to give the power back to the survivors, how they want to be depicted. and so they don't to be only defined by their suffering, but also by their hopes and dreams of their basically like like all of us. but why show victims or survivors i should say from across a century of conflict,
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why not concentrate on children today who have suffered from yet. again, the idea behind it is to have the connections. so, i mean, there's no place on the earth that hasn't seen war at some time in its history. and basically the experience of war as a child is, is universal. it's the same everywhere. so whether it's amal's do child who went through war in syria today or the oldest survivor in the book, which is eric carle who's now a 107 years old german man. he survived the 1st world war as a child, then the nazi era, the 2nd world war. and he, i think really says it best in the book where he says that one of the reasons he's so supportive of syrian refugees in germany now is because he remembers being that starving a child in a war when he was a child. and someone helped him so he wants to, he wants to help the people that i can see you. you're very emotional about it. it's a very emotional summer is a phenomenal book. stay with us, scott, because we want to talk about another book. it's
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a book of prize time and the winner this time it's going to a 1st time author, my very astute coach, judges, and i have chosen that standing when and that is so keeping it the 20 book of price story. i'm absolutely stunned. i didn't expect a whole i'd like to 1st of all just thank my mother. i think i've been clear that my mother is in every page of this book and without her, i wouldn't be here and my work wouldn't be here. you see. and so thank you. now doctors are getting very excited, of course, very happy. you're with a scott just by chance. this is purely by promise you scott is in the middle of reading a book. so tell us more about yeah, i bought it when it was shortlisted a number of weeks ago,
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but i didn't get around to read it until starting into it just last week. so i'm right in the beginning of it now. but a really amazing, amazing book. i mean, it's based about childhood growing up in poverty, in glasgow, in the early eighty's. so sort of the, the factual years. and it's about a young boy who is coming of age in glasgow wall. his mother is basically coming apart, suffering severe alcoholism and a douglas too has said himself, this is very autobiographical. it really is his childhood story. his mother died of alcoholism when he was 16. and what i find interesting though, about the book is it's a 1st time novel, but i mean, it's phenomenal. he east such a complete author, his voice is so so clear. and so present. i mean, it's both very gritty and harsh as you'd expect, very raw in the language, but also times just incredibly beautiful, very, very poetic. i was really struck by it. i mean, it tells quite emotionally powerful moments,
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but it doesn't help being sort of market or sentimental. i think it's really phenomenal book. i'm really excited to see what will come up with the next guy. just briefly, the lot of booker prize winners books 1st of all, it makes them really internationally famous. and secondly, sounds a lot of books. and thirdly, sometimes they go to the movies. will this wrong transfer to the silver screen? yeah, it might. well do, i mean you had great, you know, list was originally a booker prize winner and various others, the english patient, booker prize winner, being great films. this film would be more difficult. it's very raw, very, very powerful. but i think you'll bake it to make the mazing film if someone could pull off that combination of grit and poet poetry that he does in the book skull. i was always thank you very much. this week marks the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the nuremberg trials when the nazi leadership were tried for war crimes. at the end of world war 2, the city of nuremberg home to some of the largest buildings built by the nazis will
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forever be associated with darkest pages of german history. so what is happening to these buildings a modern day? nuremberg, which holds such painful memories. 'd 'd the sweeping zeppelin grandstand in nuremberg, it was here in these purpose built grounds that hundreds of thousands of people gathered for nazi rallies led by adolphine. in the 1930 s. each year, some 300000 visitors come to see what remains of the nazi era constructions of these buildings, which is still here today in a way a document of the national socialist easier. but he leaked this means that as architectural relics, they represent a visual ideal for their own that the nazi regime. a sad state of the ruins, testified to a dark chapter of german history. if it's have been made to demystify them and
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field has even been opened up to leisure time activities. 'd that delicate balance between remembering the past and opening the space up for a new story. i don't know how much the stadium, the tribune, and the sports facilities around need, renovating the pitch works very well as a sports facility without the grandstand. and i'm also concerned that if it's not renovated now, it would become a kind of memorial place of pilgrimage. phinney, i nazis, and it's renovated then. perhaps it can be better used for civilian sports purposes . that's why my opinions divided on the part of the nazi party rally complex is the unfinished congress hall. the structure is reminiscent of rome's coliseum and would have posted $50000.00 people. it's one of the largest preserved national socialist buildings today is house is the
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documentation center which offers visit his insight into the history of the complex ones is dismissed. it's important for us to make the stones tall, supporting, and that's how this means explaining the history behind these buildings. so self being transparent and always insisting on never again. and as our lesson from this history and on guiding people through the story with all the information we have for not so many 75 years after the end of the war. nuremberg snotty party rally ground stand as a somber reminder of germany's past. its stones will continue to serve as a warning to generations. finally, exhibition opening despite corunna of the magnificent guggenheim in bilbao, where 60 works by the russian abstract painter vastly kandinsky are on display. the extradition is extended until next may because of the pandemic as right now, only bill ballons can visit the museum. so let's view it from afar. i leave you
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