How meaningful is the past to our present audience, and what are the devices we use to sustain viewer interest? Is drama documentary the right device? How far do we go in fictionalizing history? How do we deliver programming that is complex and shows the ambiguities of history? How do we rationalize the cost of recreating the past? What are the responsibilities of producing history for television? Big questions with two great programmes.
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Dresden in January 1945, its baroque splendour still undamaged. Nazi propaganda is stubbornly promising Germany’s final victory, but young Anna Mauth, a nurse at… -
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When this film was aired in March 2006 it caused national news headlines, and columnists demanded an independent inquiry into its revelations. The film dramatizes tapes…