well, it means you get attention and people want you to tell the story again and again. do you get sick of that? yeah, except that when they tell it again and again and again, they add a bit of their own. stephen chuckles well, let us together, then, tell the story, well, let us together, then, tell the story, for people around the world who do not know it. and let me take you back to prague, 1938, the end of 1938. how on earth did it come to be that a young man from london, who was a successful stockbroker, had a rather glamorous life, how did it come to be that he found himself in prague in 1938? how long have you got? tell me the short version. well, the short version is that my circle of friends were all those people who were very, very left wing. i mean, my friends were those people from the stafford groups, all those people i was with daily. and coupled with that, of course, my parents, being jewish, we were in direct communication with the jewish population in germany.
sir nicholas winton, welcome to hardtalk. for most of your long life, your extraordinary story wasn t particularly well known. but now it is known right around the world. do you like the fact that people now know exactly what you did in 1938 and 39? i don t mind the story being told. i m not so keen on the frills. what do you mean about the frills? well, you know as a journalist, better than i do, what i mean. well, it means you get attention and people want you to tell the story again and again. do you get sick of that? yeah, except that when they tell it again and again and again, they add a bit of their own. well, let us together, then, tell the story, for people around the world who do not know it. and let me take you back to prague, 1938, the end of 1938. how on earth did it come to be that a young man from london, who was a successful stockbroker, had a rather glamorous life, how did it come to be that he found himself in prague in 1938? how long have you got? tell me
destruction, but none of this is presented here. so theyjust condemn anyone who dares to criticise israel. i don t know if weekly is a genocide. but it is a bloodbath, it is a terrible mass killing. do we care if it is legally a genocide or not. the israeli boron actor mind about pickling, their mind about labelling it as genocide. the? about pickling, their mind about labelling it as genocide. they mind, i cuess, labelling it as genocide. they mind, i guess. for labelling it as genocide. they mind, i guess, for reasons labelling it as genocide. they mind, i guess, for reasons which - labelling it as genocide. they mind, i guess, for reasons which are - labelling it as genocide. they mind, i guess, for reasons which are for. i guess, for reasons which are for anyone who knows some history are understandable. to quote your country s president, he calls the accusations atrocious. and preposterous. you yourself mentioned to me your own past, your own parents came from germa
welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it s such a pleasure to be back in hardtalk with you, stephen. well, it s a pleasure to have you on the show. let s begin with a very basic fact you are one of your own israeli government s fiercest critics. you have been for a long time. you ve certainly been an arch critic of the israeli military strategy in gaza. given all of that, i just wonder how you feel sitting in tel aviv watching the international court ofjustice consider the case of genocide filed against israel. i was watching it with a lot of sadness, depression and also a sense of shame, i must tell you. you know, my parents came here as refugees, really the ashes of the biggest genocide in history. and here, 80, 90 years later, israel is accused for genocide. i mean, i wish more israelis have at least watched the scenes, at least watch the scenes of gaza. they don t see gaza. i wish they would have seen more of the children on the grounds of the hospitals, the starvation, the d
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