Ludovic Kennedy

J.K. Galbraith went back to his stellar career as a leading economist, academic, and prolific author.

George Ball worked for various US administrations, including that of Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and became US ambassador to the United Nations.

During the Vietnam War in the mid-1960s, Ball even opposed carpet bombing, which he argued would be as ineffective as it had been in Germany during World War II.

What none of them seemed to consider at the time was that their collaboration might one day be a reason why Speer would be treated far more leniently than others at the heart of Hitler's regime.

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In October 1973, he was given another opportunity to present himself as the good Nazi.

He took a trip to England, where he was interviewed by Ludovic Kennedy, the distinguished broadcaster for a BBC television programme.

The end of the war came and you saw what had happened in the concentration camps and you were appalled and you took, did you not, and you say so in your book very tellingly, you took the guilt of Germany upon yourself.

They kept pressing the government, and in 1955, a barrister named Michael Eddowes published a book on the case called The Man on Your Conscience.

In 1961, Ludovic Kennedy followed it with 10 Remington Place.

So a lot of people are researching and writing about this.

Kennedy was a broadcaster and researcher aboard there in Edinburgh.

And then Nicola Murray starts in the next series, doesn't

she? And it's the first time we see Ben Swain, who's played by Justin Edwards, who which is quite interesting i've forgotten how self-assured and cocky he is before the paxman interview and obviously jeremy paxman plays himself so a bit like we won't the yes minister episode we did where ludovic kennedy plays himself and what's just a

glorious bit of television

but the interesting thing i suppose in that is so much of this episode takes place with people on the phone and again that people would have been whatsapping us now people would whatsapp during those kind of interviews Yeah, but just phones, phones there is.

But the doubts didn't disappear.

Campaigners continued asking questions, writers and journalists examined the evidence, and in 1961, Ludovic Kennedy published 10 Rillington Place, bringing the controversy to a new generation of readers.

The pressure for another investigation continued to grow.

Eventually in 1965, a fresh inquiry was ordered.

When this film was repeated the year after its first broadcast, it was repeated as part of a season of programs marking the anniversary of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Ludovic Kennedy introduced it, and it was preceded by the first screening of The War Game by Peter Watkins.

Right.

And Ludovic Kennedy said that whereas with The War Game, uh, the thing that strikes you is the, is the, the noise.

With Threads, it's the silence.

Yes.

You know, most people are very ignorant, you know, politically.

And there's also an edition of Did You See? that covers Threads, hosted by Ludovic Kennedy, who seems to be on all these programs.

Yeah, I think he does a bit of voiceover in the Panorama as well, actually.

He does.

He does.

I don't know why we think it's like get the bat signal for, uh, Ludovic Kennedy [laughs] to come.

He introduced the repeat, didn't he?

he?Yeah, he introduces a repeat, and Did You See was a, you know, again, pretty amazing program actually that was a review of the week's TV on BBC Two, usually on Saturday or a Sunday, and they covered Threads.