検索キーワード： "20×20" 第二次世界大戦・ホロコースト

Christmas Day 1944: After his last mission put him in the tailspin of the Battle of the Bulge, Captain Billy Boyle travels to southeast England to visit his girlfriend, Diana Seaton, for a brief holiday respite. Diana is engaged in classified work at RAF Hawkinge, including Operation Corona, which recruits German-speaking Women’s Auxiliary Air Force members—many of them Jewish refugees from the Kindertransport rescue—to countermand German orders and direct night fighters away from Allied bombers.

"Krigsdøtre" er historien om to danske kvinders liv og skæbne. Karen Jeppe der har viet sit liv til at hjælpe det forfulgte armenske folk, mens Johanne er til udlandet i jagten på en karriere. Den danske forfatter Elisabeth Lyneborg (f. 1939) har slået sine folder vidt omkring. Hun har eksempelvis arbejdet som engelsk korrespondent i 1958-60 efterfulgt af et studieophold i Frankrig (1960-61), hvorefter hun vendte tilbage til Danmark, hvor hun fik optagelse som skuespillerelev ved Århus Teater i 1961-62.

Novelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis was one of Britain’s greatest postwar writers. A master of comic fiction, he came to fame in 1954, and won the 1986 Booker Prize for The Old Devils. Included in this collection are dramatisations of seven of his short stories and two novels, all imbued with his characteristic wit and social satire. These are complemented by readings of selected correspondence and an interview with Amis himself.