Nuremberg: The Trial of the Nazi War Criminals - Episode 11 - What Does Evil Look Like?

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January 1946, the army psychologist assigned to look after the Accused has a never-to-be-repeated chance to examine evil, close-up, day-by-day. What made these 22 men capable of such horrific acts? He spends time with them, he runs tests: just what will it reveal?

Gustav Gilbert, a German-speaking US Army Psychologist, is assigned to Nuremberg Prison to examine and watch over the defendants. The defendants value the chance to speak to him and he lets them – he writes up daily, copious notes of his conversations. Will he find the mystery of human evil? Starring Ed Stoppard as Gustav Gilbert, a New York psychologist, and featuring Jasper Britton as Joachim von Ribbentrop, once Hitler’s Foreign Minister.

Gustav Gilbert - ED STOPPARD
Douglas Kelley - ILAN GOODMAN
Robert H Jackson - JOSEPH MYDELL
Sir Geoffrey Lawrence - NICHOLAS WOODESON
Hermann Goering - NIGEL LINDSAY
Edda Goering - ROSIE SHEEHY
Emmy Goering - SOPHIA PETTIT
Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe - FORBES MASSON
Albert Kesselring and other roles - CLIVE WOOD
John Amen - JOSEPH ALESSI
Joachim von Ribbentrop - JASPER BRITTON
Ernst Kaltenbrunner - JONATHAN CULLEN
Otto Kranzbühler and other roles - MARK EDEL-HUNT
Admiral Nimitz and other roles - NATHAN WILEY
Alfred Seidl and other roles - HARI DHILLON
Hans Frank and other roles - ANDREW WOODALL
Titles - LEWIS MACLEOD

Sound Designer - ADAM WOODHAMS
Studio Manager - MARK SMITH
Casting Director - GINNY SCHILLER
Original Score - METAPHOR MUSIC
Writer and Director - JONATHAN MYERSON
Producer - NICHOLAS NEWTON

A Promenade Production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

Published on Tuesday, 11th January 2022.

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