Podcasts about bram fischer

fWotD Episode 3064: Burger's Daughter Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles.The featured article for Wednesday, 24 September 2025, is Burger's Daughter.Burger's Daughter is a political and historical novel by the South African Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Nadine Gordimer, first published in the United Kingdom in June 1979 by Jonathan Cape. The book was expected to be banned in South Africa, and a month after publication in London the import and sale of the book in South Africa was prohibited by the Publications Control Board. Three months later, the Publications Appeal Board overturned the banning and the restrictions were lifted.Burger's Daughter details a group of white anti-apartheid activists in South Africa seeking to overthrow the South African government. It is set in the mid-1970s, and follows the life of Rosa Burger, the title character, as she comes to terms with her father Lionel Burger's legacy as an activist in the South African Communist Party (SACP). The perspective shifts between Rosa's internal monologue (often directed towards her father or her lover Conrad), and the omniscient narrator. The novel is rooted in the history of the anti-apartheid struggle and references to actual events and people from that period, including Nelson Mandela and the 1976 Soweto uprising.Gordimer herself was involved in South African struggle politics, and she knew many of the activists, including Bram Fischer, Mandela's treason trial defence lawyer. She modelled the Burger family in the novel loosely on Fischer's family, and described Burger's Daughter as "a coded homage" to Fischer. While banned in South Africa, a copy of the book was smuggled into Mandela's prison cell on Robben Island, and he reported that he "thought well of it".The novel was generally well-received by critics. A reviewer for The New York Times said that Burger's Daughter is Gordimer's "most political and most moving novel", and a review in The New York Review of Books described the style of writing as "elegant", "fastidious" and belonging to a "cultivated upper class". A critic in The Hudson Review had mixed feelings about the book, saying that it "gives scarcely any pleasure in the reading but which one is pleased to have read nonetheless". Burger's Daughter won the Central News Agency Literary Award in 1980.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:30 UTC on Wednesday, 24 September 2025.For the full current version of the article, see Burger's Daughter on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm generative Salli.

Traditionally a lawyer's own views and political affiliation are irrelevant to the pursuit of the legal process. This lecture will examine - and celebrate - the work of lawyers who have crossed the usual lines and worked for political change. It will look at the life of South African advocate Bram Fischer, who defended Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia trial, and was himself prosecuted for sabotage and sentenced to life in prison. It will consider modern examples of lawyers paying a heavy price for political engagement, as well as the ethical issues which are engaged - how far can a lawyer go?A lecture by Thomas Grant QC 19 OctoberThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/political-lawyerGresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 2,000 lectures free to access or download from the website.Website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollege Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollege Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/greshamcollege

Crank up that AC and settle in for a brand new episode of the BSV Podcast! This week, Justin does a deep dive on the new The Film Detective release of Phil Goldstone's pre-code classic THE SIN OF NORA MORAN, while both of your hosts sings the praises of Metrograph Pictures on the occasion of their stellar re-release of the David Hockney docu-fiction hybrid A BIGGER SPLASH. Also, Mark has all your reality television streaming tips right here! CULT HOUSE OF WAX (1953) (Warner Archive) SHADOW PLAY (1986) (Scorpion) DOCTOR WHO: SEASON 3 - TOM BAKER (BBC/Warner) WOLF (1994) (Indicator) CLASSIC THE LOST HONOUR OF KATHARINA BLUM (Criterion) TOTO THE HERO (Arrow) HYENAS (1992) (Metrograph/Kino) A BIGGER SPLASH (1973) (Metrograph/Kino) ***BLIND BUY*** THE QUEEN (1968) (Kino) AUDIE MURPHY COLLECTION (includes THE DUEL AT SILVER CREEK, RIDE A CROOKED TRAIL and NO NAME ON THE BULLET) (Kino) POOL OF LONDON (1951) (Kino) THE SIN OF NORA MORAN (Film Detective) NEW HIS DARK MATERIALS: SEASON 1 (HBO/Warner) JACK RYAN: SEASON 2 (Paramount) LAW & ORDER - SVU: SEASON 21 (Universal) SWALLOW (2019) (Shout/IFC) DIRT MUSIC (2019) (Samuel Goldwyn) LOST TRANSMISSIONS (2019) (Gravitas Ventures) HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD (2018) (Well Go) RIDE YOUR WAVE (2019) (GKids/Shout) CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (Kino) EXIT PLAN (2019) (Screen Media) THE ROAD TO MOTHER (2016) (Kino) THE RESISTANCE FIGHTER (aka KURIER) (2019) (Shout) AN ACT OF DEFIANCE (aka BRAM FISCHER) (2017) (Menemsha) THE MOVER (aka TEVS NAKTS) (2018) (Menemsha) REDEMPTION (aka GEULA) (2018) (Menemsha) THE SOUL COLLECTOR (2019) (Shout)

BRAM FISCHER raccontato da Davide Maggiore

Filmregisseur en scenarioschrijver Jean van de Velde heeft een gevarieerd oeuvre opgebouwd. All Stars bleek een groot succes. Met Lek, De kleine blonde dood en Bram Fischer won hij meerdere Gouden Kalveren. Nu is daar de 8- delige thriller serie ‘Morten’ op NPO3, waarin Peter Paul Muller de rol van de ambitieuze politicus Morten Mathijsen speelt. Presentatie: Coen Verbraak

South African journalist Gavin Fischer gets exclusive access to newly available recordings from one of the most significant trials in modern political history – The Rivonia Trial. He has a personal connection. His great-uncle Bram Fischer led the defence of Nelson Mandela and his co-accused during the trial in the early 1960s. Gavin looks back on the trial and Bram's decision to use his white privilege to fight apartheid – rather than be part of it – with Denis Goldberg, one of the last survivors of the trial.

AV Education — This is a special edition of Amabookabooka – it’s from a previous podcast series we produced called Extraordinary Lives. This episode, recorded two years ago, was never released and we’re releasing it now to coincide with the 109th anniversary of the birth of Bram Fischer – the South African prime minster we should have had.

Panel discussion examining the question of whether it is ever justified to break the law. Chair: Sir Nicholas Stadlen (Alistair Horne Visiting Fellow 2015/2016, Academic Visitor 2016/2017, former English High Court Judge). Speakers: Lord Joel Joffe (Nelson Mandela's Attorney at the Rivonia Trial, sponsor of the first Assisted Dying Bill, former chairman of Oxfam); Sir Sydney Kentridge QC (Defended Nelson Mandela's QC, Bram Fischer, at his trial for sabotage and at the proceedings to remove him from the Roll of Advocates for dishonourable conduct and jumping bail and represented the family of Steve Biko at his inquest); Kate O'Regan (Inaugural Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford University, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa ).

This week's Great Life might have become an Afrikaner Nationalist Prime Minister of apartheid South Africa, but instead became its most prominent white opponent. A formidable advocate, he led the defence of Nelson Mandela in the Rivonia Trial. It is no exaggeration to say Bram Fischer saved Mandela's life, and it is said Mandela would have made him his vice-president, had he lived to see Mandela's release. He's nominated by former English High Court Judge Sir Nick Stadlen along with Lord Joffe. Matthew Parris is the presenter. The producer is Perminder Khatkar.

George Bizos SC, human rights lawyer and defense barrister for Nelson Mandela, gives the 2011 Bram Fischer lecture at the Rhodes House, Oxford.