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During our coverage of Miep Gies, we presented the story of the events that were happening in the world at large during WW2, closer in within the city of Amsterdam, and then to a smaller scale within the lives, offices and homes of the helpers. Susan has in fact taken a pilgrimage to Amsterdam to visit the attic where Anne lived and Miep worked so hard to keep her safe. But, since we cannot all be there in person, here is our Anne Frank episode from 2018, the story of what was happening inside the secret annex, and in the hearts of the people who lived there. As Anne once wrote in her diary: "What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it from happening again." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Miep Gies risked her life in order to help her Jewish friends hide from the Nazis during World War 2. In Part 2 of her story, we'll take you through the years of struggle and subterfuge, the dark day when the Secret Annex was raided, and how Miep saved Anne Frank's writings from destruction. Anne's diary is one of the most significant historical documents of the 20th century, providing a deeply personal account of life during the Holocaust. Said Miep of her work during the war: "My story is a story of very ordinary people during extraordinary times, times the like of which I hope with all my heart will never come again. It is for all of us ordinary people all over the world to see to it that they do not." MIxtiles (Use code CHICKS) OSEA (Use code CHICKS) Blissy (Use code HISTORYCHICKS) Honeylove Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a land fraught with turbulence and oppression, Miep Gies helped to shelter and supply Anne Frank's family (and others) while they were in hiding from the Nazis; an act of civil disobedience that was, though illegal, the most moral of human endeavors. This episode is sponsored in part by: Show off your excellent taste in podcasts by grabbing your History Chicks merch at our Dashery Store, visit The History Chicks Shop Smalls Cat Food: Get 35% off plus an additional 50% off your first order when you head to SMALLS.COM and use code CHICKS Rocket Money: Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals at ROCKETMONEY.COM/HISTORYCHICKS Quince: Give yourself a luxe upgrade, 365-day returns, and free shipping at QUINCE.COM/CHICKS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An ihrem 13. Geburtstag beginnt Anne Frank, geboren am 12. Juni 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, in Amsterdam ihr Tagebuch zu führen. Es sollte später weltberühmt werden. Die Familie Frank war bereits 1933 aus Frankfurt in die Niederlande gezogen. Im Juli 1942 flüchtet sie innerhalb von Amsterdam in ein Hinterhaus, um sich vor den Nazis zu verstecken. Versorgt wird die Familie unter anderem von Miep Gies, der früheren Sekretärin des Vaters. Anne Franks Tagebucheinträge gehen über zwei Jahre, bis zum August 1944. Im September wird die Familie nach Auschwitz gebracht. Männer und Frauen werden getrennt. Anne Frank wird später ins KZ Bergen-Belsen deportiert, wo sie Anfang 1945 stirbt. Annes Vater Otto Frank bleibt in Auschwitz. Die Befreiung durch die sowjetische Armee rettet ihm das Leben, er überlebt als einziger der Familie. Nach dem Krieg veröffentlicht er das Tagebuch seiner Tochter. Auf Deutsch erscheint das "Tagebuch der Anne Frank" 1950 und gehört heute zum Unesco-Weltdokumentenerbe. Doch Neonazis und Rechtsextreme behaupten schon früh, es sei nicht echt. Ende der 1970er-Jahre kommt es deshalb zum Prozess in Hamburg. Otto Frank reist zu diesem Anlass 1978 als Zeuge nach Hamburg und gibt dem NDR am 18. August dieses Interview. Die Angeklagten im Hamburger Prozess werden 1979 freigesprochen – das Gericht sieht ihre Behauptungen durch das Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerungen gedeckt. Die Echtheit der Tagebücher wird jedoch durch weitere Untersuchungen erhärtet und gilt als erwiesen.

Hayley covers Hermine "Miep" Gies, the Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank and her family. Then Kat covers the most painful plant in the world Dendrocnide moroides AKA Gympie-Gympie! Still got a thirst for knowledge and parasaocial camaraderie? You're in luck! We release bonus shows every week on our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/nightclassy   Night Classy | Linktree   Produced by Parasaur Studios © 2025

Während der Besetzung Hollands durch die Nationalsozialisten verbergen sich in der Prinsengracht 263 von Amsterdam acht jüdische Personen. Unter ihnen die Familie Anne Franks, das Mädchen, das durch sein Tagebuch bekannt geworden ist. Zu den Helfern der Versteckten gehört die Sekretärin Miep Gies. Zwei Jahre hilft sie, Nahrung in die geheime Unterkunft zu schleusen. Zwei Jahre lang hält sie die Versteckten über die politische Entwicklung auf dem Laufenden. Zwei Jahre ist sie bestrebt, ihnen Gutes zu tun. Leider werden die Untergetauchten im Sommer 1944 verraten und verhaftet. Nur Otto Frank, der Vater von Anne, überlebt das Martyrium. Heute vor 15 Jahren, ist Miep Gies im Alter von 100 Jahren gestorben.Man könnte sich nun fragen, was die guten Taten von Miep Gies denn bewirkt haben. Sind sie nicht am Ende vergeblich gewesen? Wenn es das Ziel war, die Hilfsbedürftigen zu retten, kann man zu diesem Schluss kommen. Aber wie es am Ende ausgeht, wissen wir ja vorher nicht. Jedenfalls ist die Wahl, anderen zu helfen, niemals falsch, und darüber hinaus liegt es immer in unserer Verantwortung zu helfen, wenn wir nur helfen können. Im Fall von Miep Gies erlebten die Versteckten jedenfalls statt der nationalsozialistischen Menschenverachtung zwei Jahre lang Wertschätzung und Zuspruch durch ihre Helfer.Im Tagesvers werden wir aufgefordert, generell Gutes zu tun. Und zwar ab dem Augenblick, wenn wir wissen, wo die Not drückt. Dazu muss man erst einmal von sich selbst absehen. Kein anderer hat das klarer gemacht als Jesus Christus. Er gab sein Leben, um Menschen den Weg zum ewigen Leben zu bahnen. Das tat er aus Liebe zu uns. Neutral bleiben genügte auch hier nicht, durch seinen selbstlosen Einsatz werden bis heute Menschen erlöst und befreit.Stefan TaubeDiese und viele weitere Andachten online lesenWeitere Informationen zu »Leben ist mehr« erhalten Sie unter www.lebenistmehr.deAudioaufnahmen: Radio Segenswelle

In this insightful message, discover how faith in Jesus Christ should shape political engagement. Learn from Matthew 20:20-28 about the call to serve rather than rule, and understand the complex relationship between politics and faith. With references to John 18:36 and 2 Corinthians 5:1-10, the sermon emphasizes our primary allegiance to Christ's heavenly kingdom. Engage responsibly in earthly politics, seeking the welfare of your community as urged in Jeremiah 29:1-7. Follow the example of Jesus and historical figures like Miep Gies, and strive for unity and peace as instructed in Titus 3:1-2. Reflect on how your political actions can honor Christ and promote love, justice, and mercy.

Nghe trọn sách nói Viết Lên Hy Vọng trên ứng dụng Fonos: https://fonos.link/podcast-tvsn --Về Fonos:Fonos là Ứng dụng âm thanh số - Với hơn 13.000 nội dung gồm Sách nói có bản quyền, Podcast, Ebook, Tóm tắt sách, Thiền định, Truyện ngủ, Nhạc chủ đề, Truyện thiếu nhi. Bạn có thể nghe miễn phí chương 1 của tất cả sách nói trên Fonos. Tải app để trải nghiệm ngay!--Có một câu nói rất nổi tiếng của nhà sư phạm Xô Viết, viện sĩ Viện Hàn lâm Khoa học Giáo dục Liên Xô Vasilij Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinskij rằng: “Đối với người giáo viên, cần phải có kiến thức, có hiểu biết sư phạm về quy luật xã hội, có khả năng dùng lời nói để tác động đến tâm hồn học sinh, có kỹ năng đặc sắc nhìn nhận con người và cảm thấy những rung động tinh tế nhất của trái tim con người.” Ở bất kỳ quốc gia nào, trong bất kỳ nền giáo dục nào, câu nói ấy vẫn còn nguyên giá trị. Năm 1994, Erin Gruwell về dạy tại trường Trung học Wilson, Long Beach, California. Như nhiều giáo viên mới ra trường khác, cô phải đương đầu với một lớp học toàn những học sinh cá biệt. Ban đầu, gần như cả lớp đều tỏ thái độ chống đối cô bằng những trò quậy phá, đánh nhau trong lớp, trốn tiết,... nhưng cô vẫn không đầu hàng. Cô có niềm tin mạnh mẽ rằng giáo dục có thể chiến thắng cả những nghịch cảnh tồi tệ nhất. Một ngày, cô vô cùng ngạc nhiên khi phát hiện ra học sinh trong lớp không hề biết gì về cuộc tàn sát người Do Thái của phát xít Đức. Và dường như chính các em lại đang là nạn nhân của một cuộc chiến khác - một cuộc chiến không được tuyên bố nhưng không kém phần đau thương và thống khổ. Erin quyết định giới thiệu với cả lớp 2 cuốn sách về Anne Frank - cô bé nạn nhân của cuộc tàn sát người Do Thái trong Chiến tranh thế giới thứ hai và Zlata Filipovic - người thiếu nữ viết về cuộc sống của mình trong cuộc chiến ác liệt ở Sarajevo. Erin truyền cảm hứng cho các em bắt đầu viết nhật ký về cuộc sống đầy rẫy sự bất công của mình, tìm mọi cách giúp các em lấy lại niềm tin bằng nhiều hoạt động ý nghĩa như đi thăm bảo tàng về cuộc thảm sát người Do Thái, gặp gỡ với bà Miep Gies - người đã che giấu gia đình Anne Frank khỏi Đức quốc xã, gây quỹ để mời Zlata Filipovic cùng bố mẹ đến thăm Long Beach,… Erin Gruwell đã khiến ban đầu là cả trường, sau đó là giới truyền thông và cả nước Mỹ phải kinh ngạc vì những gì cô và các học sinh của mình đã làm được. --Tìm hiểu thêm về Fonos: https://fonos.vn/Theo dõi Facebook Fonos: https://www.facebook.com/fonosvietnam/

TRIBUTO: HISTORIAS QUE CONSTRUYEN MEMORIA DE LA SHOÁ, CON CECILIA LEVIT – Otto Heinrich Frank nació el 12 de mayo de 1889 en Fráncfort del Meno, en el seno de una familia judía liberal. Es el segundo de cuatro hermanos: Robert, Otto, Herbert y Helene. Vive una infancia feliz y privilegiada. En 1925, Otto, de 36 años, se casa con Edith Holländer, se instalan en Fráncfort y muy pronto se convierten en padres: Margot nace en 1926 y Ana en 1929. Con la llegada del partido nazi al poder en 1933, aumenta rápidamente la persecución de la comunidad judía. En el verano europeo de 1933, Otto se trasladó a Ámsterdam. La Alemania nazi invade los Países Bajos en mayo de 1940 y en el verano de 1941, comienza las deportaciones y la vida cotidiana se hace cada vez más difícil para los judíos holandeses, de modo que Otto Frank empieza a buscar un escondite para él y su familia. El 4 de agosto de 1944, tras más de dos años en la clandestinidad, las ocho personas del escondite son denunciadas y detenidas por la Gestapo, que las lleva al campo de tránsito de Westerbork. Un mes después, la familia Frank es deportada a Auschwitz. El 27 de enero de 1945, completamente agotado y gravemente enfermo es liberado. En julio de 1945, la Cruz Roja Internacional confirma que Margot y Ana han perecido en el campo de concentración de Bergen-Belsen. Miep Gies, su compañera y amiga que la protegió, le entrega a Otto el diario de Ana. Otto edita el diario de Ana y la primera edición se publica en 1947. Traducido a muchos idiomas, el Diario de Ana se convierte en un best seller y de alguna manera da vida nuevamente a Otto, su padre.

词汇提示1.persecution 迫害2.handicapped 残疾人3.intellectuals 知识分子4.pectin 果胶5.herbs 草药6.seasoning 调味7.gypsies 吉普赛人8.homosexual 同性恋9.chronically 长期地10.eliminated 消除11.authorities 当局者原文The Story of Anne FrankWar,persecution, and economic depression affect not only adults, but also old people, children, babies, the sick and the handicapped.Since history is written mostly about politicians, soldiers, intellectuals and criminals, we don't read very often about how events affect ordinary people.Now and then a special book will shed light on what it was like to live in the midst of terrible events.Such a book is "The Diary of Anne Frank."Anne Frank was born in Frankfurtam Main, Germany, in 1929.Her father Otto Frank was a businessman who moved the family to the Netherlands in 1934.In Amsterdam, Otto started a company selling pectin to make jams and jellies.Later he began a second company that sold herbs for seasoning meat.Otto Frank had decided to leave Germany because of the policies and personality of the new German Chancellor Adolph Hitler.Hitler had a personal hatred not only for Jewish people but also for everything Jewish.He felt that one way to strengthen Germany and solve its problems was to kill or drive out all the Jews.Hitler also felt that other groups, such as blacks, gypsies, the handicapped,homosexuals and the chronically unemployed should be eliminated.Then only strong healthy "true Germans" would be left.Since Hitler had a plan to solve Germany's economic problems, he received a lot of popular support.Very few Germans realized that he was mentally and emotionally unbalanced and would kill anyone who got in his way.The Frank family was Jewish, and they felt that they would be safe in the Netherlands.However,in May 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands and soon took over the government.In 1941, laws were passed to keep Jews separate from other Dutch citizens.The following year, Dutch Jews began to be shipped to concentration camps in Germany and Poland.Just before this began, Anne Frank, Otto's younger daughter, received a diary for her 13th birthday.Less than a month later, the whole family went into hiding.Otto Frank had made friends with the Dutch people who worked with him in his business operations.Now these friends were ready to help him, even though hiding Jews from the authorities was treated as a serious crime.Behind Otto Frank's business offices, there was another house that was not visible from the street.Here the Franks moved many of their things.Only a few trusted people knew they were living there.The Franks moved into these small rooms on July 6, 1942,and they lived there with another Jewish family, the Van Pels, until the police captured them on August 4, 1944.So,for more than two years, the two families never went outside.All their food and supplies had to be brought to them.During this period, Anne Frank told her diary all her thoughts and fears.Like any teenage girl, she hoped that good things would happen to her, that she would become a writer or a movie star.She complained that her parents treated her like a child.She insisted that she was grown up.She also talked about how difficult it was to live in a small area with seven other people and not be able to go outside.She wrote about the war and hoped that the Netherlands would soon be liberated from the Germans.Anne sometimes envied her older sister, Margot, who was so much more mature, and who never got into trouble.She and Margot wrote letters to each other to pass the time.Anne even had a romance with Peter van Pels, who was seventeen.Then all their fears came true.All the eight Jews hiding in the house were arrested and eventually sent to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland.Although the war was ending, it did not end soon enough for the Frank family.Only Otto Frank survived the war.One of their helpers, Miep Gies, saved Anne's diary and kept it.After the war, Otto Frank decided to publish it.Since 1947 more than 20 million copies have been sold in 55 languages.Anne's diary shows the terrible cost of hatred, persecution and war better than any history book.翻译安妮·弗兰克的故事战争、迫害和经济萧条不仅影响成年人，也影响老人、儿童、婴儿、病人和残疾人。由于历史主要是关于政治家、士兵、知识分子和罪犯的，我们很少读到事件对普通人的影响。时不时地，一本特别的书会揭示生活在可怕事件中的感觉。这样一本书就是《安妮日记》。安妮·弗兰克1929年出生于德国法兰克福。她的父亲奥托·弗兰克是一位商人，1934年全家搬到了荷兰。在阿姆斯特丹，奥托开了一家公司，销售用来制作果酱和果冻的果胶。后来，他又开了第二家公司，出售调味肉用的草药。由于德国新总理阿道夫·希特勒的政策和个性，奥托·弗兰克决定离开德国。希特勒不仅对犹太人，而且对一切犹太人都有个人的仇恨。他认为，加强德国和解决其问题的一个方法是杀死或驱逐所有犹太人。希特勒还认为其他群体，如黑人、吉普赛人、残疾人、同性恋者和长期失业者应该被消灭。这样就只剩下强壮健康的“真正德国人”了。由于希特勒有一个解决德国经济问题的计划，他得到了很多民众的支持。很少有德国人意识到他在精神上和情感上都不平衡，会杀死任何挡他路的人。弗兰克一家是犹太人，他们觉得在荷兰会很安全。然而，1940年5月，德国入侵荷兰，并很快接管了政府。1941年，通过了将犹太人与其他荷兰公民分开的法律。第二年，荷兰犹太人开始被运往德国和波兰的集中营。就在这一切开始之前，奥托的小女儿安妮·弗兰克(Anne Frank)在13岁生日时收到了一本日记。不到一个月后，全家人都躲起来了。奥托·弗兰克与在他的商业运作中与他一起工作的荷兰人交了朋友。现在这些朋友都愿意帮助他，尽管向当局藏匿犹太人是一种严重的罪行。在奥托·弗兰克的商业办公室后面，还有一栋房子，从街上看不见。法兰克人把他们的许多东西搬到了这里。只有少数值得信赖的人知道他们住在那里。1942年7月6日，弗兰克斯一家搬进了这些小房间，他们和另一个犹太家庭范佩尔(Van Pels)住在一起，直到1944年8月4日被警察逮捕。因此，在两年多的时间里，两家人从未出门。他们所有的食物和补给都必须运来。在此期间，安妮·弗兰克把她所有的想法和恐惧都写在日记里。像任何一个十几岁的女孩一样，她希望好事会发生在她身上，希望她能成为一名作家或电影明星。她抱怨父母把她当孩子对待。她坚持说她已经长大了。她还谈到了和其他七个人住在一个小地方，不能出去是多么困难。她写了关于战争的文章，希望荷兰能很快从德国人手中解放出来。安妮有时羡慕她的姐姐玛戈特，因为她成熟得多，而且从不惹事。她和玛戈特互相写信打发时间。安妮甚至和17岁的彼得·范·佩尔斯有过一段恋情。然后他们所有的恐惧都成真了。躲在房子里的8名犹太人全部被捕，最终被送往波兰的奥斯维辛死亡集中营。虽然战争即将结束，但对弗兰克一家来说，结束得还不够快。只有奥托·弗兰克在战争中幸存下来。他们的助手之一梅普·吉斯保存了安妮的日记并保存了下来。战后，奥托·弗兰克决定出版这本书。自1947年以来，该书已被翻译成55种语言，销量超过2000万册。安妮的日记比任何一本历史书都更好地展示了仇恨、迫害和战争的可怕代价。

"The Last of Us", "Succession" und "Black Mirror": im ersten Halbjahr 2023 gab's viele Serien-Highlights. Aber auch viele Serien, die neben den Blockbustern untergegangen sind. In der finalen Podcastfolge von "Skip Intro" verabschieden sich die Hosts Katja Engelhardt und Vanessa Schneider und blicken auf die Serienneustarts der vergangenen sechs Monate zurück. Wir sprechen über unsere persönlichen Favorites abseits der großen Hits - und die aktuellen Serientrends. Darunter die überraschende Netflix-Serie "BEEF" über eine außer Kontrolle geratene Rivalität, die softe Science Fiction Dramedy "Tender Hearts" (Wow), die Murder Mystery "Poker Face" (Peacock) und die historische Serie "Ein Funken Hoffnung" von Disney+ über Miep Gies - die Frau, die Anne Frank versteckte. Shownotes: Vielen vielen Dank, dass ihr uns zugehört habt. Wir verabschieden uns mit dieser "Skip Intro"-Folge von euch und freuen uns über Nachrichten und Feedback an uns - und unsere Redaktion. Warum habt ihr "Skip Intro" gern gehört? Schreibt an den Bayern 2 Hörerservice: https://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/service/kontakt-hoererservice-100.html oder an skipintro at br.de Für Serientipps, Interviews und fundierte Gespräche rund um aktuelle Serienstarts, folgt "Glotz und Gloria", dem Serienpodcast von WDR Cosmo mit Jörn Behr und Emily Thomey. Lasst ihnen ein Abo da und fünf Sterne! https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/cosmo-glotz-und-gloria/52239092/ Das Interview mit Dabiel Donskoy zu seiner Rolle als Nazi in der Disney+-Serie "A Small Light" - "Ein Funken Hoffnung": https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/koelner-treff/schauspieler-daniel-donskoy/wdr/Y3JpZDovL3dkci5kZS9CZWl0cmFnLThhYjlkYTI1LWM3ZTAtNDA4Yy05ZmE4LWE4NjI4MTczOGRlMg Mehr zum Writers Strike in den USA erfahrt ihr hier in dieser Folge vom NYT Podcast "The Daily": https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/podcasts/the-daily/tv-wga-writers-strike.html?mc_cid=16621237b1 und in dieser Episode von "Lakonisch Elegant" in der ARD Audiothek: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/lakonisch-elegant-deutschlandfunk-kultur/streiks-in-hollywood-wie-viel-ist-eigentlich-ein-drehbuch-wert/deutschlandfunk-kultur/12648267/ Auf diese "Skip Intro"-Folgen haben wir uns bezogen "Transatlantic": https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/skip-intro-der-serien-podcast/transatlantic-netflix-kann-der-2-weltkrieg-eine-dramedy-sein/bayern-2/12593451/ "Silo": https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/skip-intro-der-serien-podcast/silo-appletv-die-beste-sci-fi-serie-des-jahres/bayern-2/12673289/ "The Last of Us": https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/skip-intro-der-serien-podcast/the-last-of-us-sky-wow-die-bisher-beste-games-serie/bayern-2/12355039/ "Shrinking": https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/skip-intro-der-serien-podcast/shrinking-appletv-dramedy-fuer-ted-lasso-fans/bayern-2/12375427/ "Skip Intro" ist eine Produktion des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Hier findet ihr auch Berichterstattung und Hintergründe zu aktuellen Ereignissen, etwa bei BR24: https://www.br.de/nachrichten/ Impressum: https://www.br.de/unternehmen/service/impressum/index.html

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In today's KFM, Cassie and Bethany discuss the eerie historical crossovers and connections in the timelines of MLK, JFK, Anne Frank, and Miep Gies. It's time to get out the red string... Bonus content on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/bloodandbusiness/As a Blood & Business patron you will get early access to episodes, monthly minisodes, behind the scenes vlogs, bloopers, and MORE!

In this episode, Devon Wieters interviews Joan Rater and Tony Phelan, creators of the show "A Small Light." They spent a long time as writers on "Grey's Anatomy", which included Tony directing season seven's infamous musical episode before they went on to create their own shows, including "A Small Light", which is Anne Frank's story told through the eyes of Miep Gies. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intros 0:46 From Theatre to Grey's Anatomy to A Small Light 2:29 Tony and Shonda on Grey's Anatomy5:06 Working With Shonda Rhimes on "Grey's Anatomy "6:44 A Small Light: Anne Frank's Story 9:09 How Did Tony and Joan Write 'A Small Light'?1 11:20 Filming "A Small Light" 13:50 Favorite Episodes of 'A Small Light' 14:52 The actors' experience on the set of a small light 17:47 Anne's holocaust story 24:10 The Helpers: Meeting Miep Gies's Family 27:41 The Anne Frank Museum 29:00 Holocaust Deniers 30:40 Thank You For Spreading The Word CHECK OUT OUR OTHER EPISODES https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk9MJNQYshE57f6zsDbpvrUaQ-Ef1BDYz FIND US AThttps://www.wheelwithit.com Follow us on social https://www.instagram.com/tvphelan/?hl=en https://twitter.com/tonytphelan?lang=en https://www.instagram.com/joanrater/?hl=en https://twitter.com/joanrater?lang=en https://www.instagram.com/asmalllight/ https://www.facebook.com/wheelwithitpod/ https://www.instagram.com/wheelwithitpod/ https://www.tiktok.com/@wheelwithit?lang=en https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzY7Yol_eOPz5BlbdDTmabA https://www.linkedin.com/in/devon-wieters-b01696174/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wheelwithit/message

Thursday, June 22nd Sinai Temple hosted the screening of the first episode of the limited series, A Small Light. A Small Light tells the moving and powerful story of Miep Gies, played by Bel Powley, the woman who hid Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam. This screening was followed by a discussion led by Rabbi Erez Sherman, featuring Tony Phelan and Joan Rater, the show's writers.

With some Disney-esque flair, National Geographic offers viewers a dramatized look at World War II through the life of heroine Miep Gies.   Read the Plugged In Review   If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.

In this episode of Warfare, host James Patton Rogers is joined by Tony Phelan and Susanna Fogel, creators of the new TV series A Small Light, which explores the remarkable true story of Miep Gies, who hid Anne Frank and her family during the Holocaust. The trio discuss the character of Gies and how she went from Otto Frank's employee to hiding his whole family in the secret annexe for two years.A Small Light is currently streaming on Disney+, with two episodes released each week.You can take part in our listener survey here.If you want to get in touch with the podcast, you can email us at ds.hh@historyhit.com, we'd love to hear from you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hoy te contamos una historia con nombre propio: la de Miep Gies. Quizá su nombre no te diga nada, pero seguro que su heroica hazaña, sí lo haga. Fue la persona que ayudó a esconder a Ana Frank y a su familia, en la famosa “casa trasera” del edificio donde trabajaba, entre 1942 y 1944, durante la ocupación de Amsterdam por los nazis. Fue Otto Frank, un empresario judío, y el padre de Ana Frank, quién le pidió ayuda a la entonces joven Miep, en un momento en que esa acción podía costarle la vida. Ella no lo dudo. Durante dos años, Miep y su marido, Jan, escondieron a la familia Frank. Y no solo a ellos, sino también a otras dos familias: los Pels y los Pfeiffer. Familias judías que huían del horror nazi.

In June 1996, Miep Gies came to Boise to plant a tree in memory of her friend Anne Frank. She was 80-years-old at the time. Later, the only Anne Frank Memorial in the United States was built on that spot.

Our latest guests on Soundtracking are two very talented women who have worked together on the music for A Small Light - the brilliantly-told story of Miep Gies, who helped Anne Frank's family and other Jewish refugees into hiding during World War 2. Ariel Marx provided the score, while Este Haim worked on contemporary reversionings of songs from the era with the likes of Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen, and her sister Danielle.

Masih Alinejad, Iranian American journalist, women's rights campaigner and a Time Woman of the Year 2023, is an outspoken critic of the Iranian government. She joins Anita to talk about her fight for women's rights in Iran. ‘Just Saying' is a memoir by the bestselling author Malorie Blackman, former Children's Laureate, best known for her Noughts & Crosses series for young adults. Malorie received eighty-two rejection letters before she finally found a publisher. Seventy published books later it is no exaggeration to say that Malorie Blackman has changed the face of British literature forever. Malorie joins Nuala to discuss her life and works. 650 years ago a woman we only know as Julian of Norwich produced a book which challenged the ideas of the time about sin and suffering. It presented a radical vision of love and hope that “All Shall Be Well and All Shall Be Well and All Manner of Things Shall be Well”. We hear from a listener, Sophie, about the words that she turns to for motivation and encouragement. Blended families are created for all sorts of reasons. Because of break-ups or the death of a parent, through fostering or adoption. Kate Ferdinand, previously Kate Wright of The Only Way is Essex fame, married the former footballer Rio Ferdinand in 2019, four years after his first wife Rebecca and mother of their three children, had died. As a new step mum she struggled partly because she felt very alone and that no-one understood what she was going through. But there was also very little out there to help someone in her situation – the step-parenting parts of books and websites were tiny, she says. Kate has now written her own book - How to Build a Family. She joins Anita to discuss her experiences. Most of us are familiar with the story of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who wrote a diary while hiding from the Nazis with her family, in Amsterdam during the Second World War. You are probably less familiar with the name of the woman who agreed to keep them safe in those secret attic rooms. Miep Gies was Otto's secretary, and when they were eventually located and sent to their deaths, it was Miep who found Anne's diary and kept it. A new TV series tells the whole story from Miep's perspective, and she is played by the British actor Bel Powley. Bel joins Nuala to talk about playing an ordinary woman who displayed extraordinary courage. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Hanna Ward

In this episode of Warfare, host James Patton Rogers is joined by Tony Phelan and Susanna Fogel, creators of the new TV series A Small Light, which explores the remarkable true story of Miep Gies, who hid Anne Frank and her family during the Holocaust. The trio discuss the character of Gies and how she went from Otto Frank's employee, to hiding his whole family in the secret annex for two years.A Small Light is currently streaming on Disney+, with two episodes released each week.For more Warfare content, subscribe to our Warfare newsletter here.If you'd like to learn even more, we have hundreds of history documentaries, ad free podcasts and audiobooks at History Hit - subscribe today! To download, go to Android or Apple store. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Silo: A dystopian drama set in a future where society exists hundreds of stories deep underground, and where men and women must obey a series of regulations designed to protect them from the outside world (Apple TV+). A Small Light: A historical drama that follows the life of Miep Gies, who helped Anne Frank and her family hide during World War 2. You may know the story of Anne Frank, but this tells the story of what happened on the other side of the bookcase (Disney+). Louis Theroux Interviews: Louis Theroux embarks on a series of intimate one-on-one interviews with the likes of Dame Judi Dench, Bear Grylls, Katherine Ryan and Rita Ora (Neon).   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Most of us are familiar with the story of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who wrote a diary while hiding from the Nazis with her family, in Amsterdam during the Second World War. You are probably less familiar with the name of the woman who agreed to keep them safe in those secret attic rooms. Miep Gies was Otto's secretary, and when they were eventually located and sent to their deaths, it was Miep who found Anne's diary and kept it. A new TV series tells the whole story from Miep's perspective, and she is played by the British actor Bel Powley. Bel joins Nuala to talk about playing an ordinary woman who displayed extraordinary courage. Plans have been announced to allow more patients to use high street pharmacies for some common drug prescriptions and routine tests to ease the pressure on busy GPs. Pharmacies are being asked to take on the prescribing of drugs for seven common ailments, including sore throats, earaches, shingles and urinary tract infections or UTIs. Women are up to 30 times more likely to get a UTIs than men. Half of women will have at least one in their lifetime and 20% will have more than one. So is easier access for women for UTI treatment a positive move? Mary Garthwaite, a former consultant urologist and chair of the Urology Foundation joins Nuala to discuss. As voters in Thailand head to the polls on Sunday for a general election, who are the frontrunners and what are the issues that female voters care about? Women played a key role in the 2020 pro-democracy protests and many are seeing the election as a way to challenge the power of patriarchal institutions such as the military and the monarchy. The current Prime Minister has been trailing behind opposition candidates in the polls, including Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the daughter of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who gave birth just two weeks ago. Nuala is joined by Jonathan Head, the BBC's South East Asia correspondent, to discuss. We hear the next in our series about how relationships are changed and put under strain when life happens. Zoe and James talk about how 'Ed' which is what they call Zoe's eating disorder has affected them since they got together as a couple when they were at school. Zoe's anorexia was 'atypical' - her weight wasn't low but she was in the grip of anorexia, all the behaviours and disordered thinking were there  - her body was under terrible stress and she was regularly collapsing. Only James was really aware of what was going on, a fact that put their relationship under pressure. Jo Morris went to meet Zoe and James in Lincolnshire and they tell their story. What was your experience with theatre when you were at school? Was there that one show you saw that inspired you and that you'll never quite forget? Playwright Hannah Lavery and writer and actor Sarah Middleton have recently taken to the stage with their respective plays, Protest, and SHEWOLVES, which are aimed at teenagers and ensuring that young women's voices are heard on the stage. They join Nuala to discuss the impact theatre can have on young people. Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Hanna Ward

Miep Gies did not realize, when she started working as a secretary for pectin manufacturer Opekta, that she was destined for heroism

Miep Gies jest młodą dziewczyną, która szuka swojego miejsca w życiu. Jeśli szybko nie znajdzie pracy to rodzice adopcyjnie chcą wydać ją... za własnego brata. Trafia do pracy do Otto Franka, ojca Anny Frank. Przemoc nazistów doprowadza do tego, że rodzina Franków musi się ukrywać. A Miep Gies im pomaga. Czy warto oglądać ten serial? Czy nadaje się do rodzinnego oglądania? I jak skonstruowana jest główna bohaterka? Dyskutują Anna Piekutowska i Zuzanna Piechowicz. 

Miep Gies jest młodą dziewczyną, która szuka swojego miejsca w życiu. Jeśli szybko nie znajdzie pracy to rodzice adopcyjnie chcą wydać ją... za własnego brata. Trafia do pracy do Otto Franka, ojca Anny Frank. Przemoc nazistów doprowadza do tego, że rodzina Franków musi się ukrywać. A Miep Gies im pomaga. Czy warto oglądać ten serial? Czy nadaje się do rodzinnego oglądania? I jak skonstruowana jest główna bohaterka? Dyskutują Anna Piekutowska i Zuzanna Piechowicz. 

Afgelopen maandag kwam A small light uit, een serie over de bekende verzetsvrouw Miep Gies op Disney+ uit. Naast haar zijn er nog veel verzetsmensen, die onbekend zijn gebleven of zelfs vergeten.Een aantal van hen zal ik vandaag uitlichten en het podium bieden wat zij verdienen. Wie waren zij en wat hebben ze voor het verzet betekent? In deze podcast praat Stephan met historicus Wim Berkelaar. 

Buckle up as Adam, Izzi, Grace, Damo and Neil talk about the latest and upcoming shows including; Citadel, Blue lights, Don't Worry Darling, Daisy Jones and the 6, She Said, Yellowjackets, Beef, Malpractice, The Nurse, The Diplomat, Welcome To Eden, Sweettooth, Fatal Attraction, Miep Gies, Tom Jones, Black Mirror and Heartstopper. We can't wait for you to hear our thoughts on the latest episode and for you to give us yours too. You can find and follow us on all the socials @tvdnapod  You can also email us on tvdnapod@gmail.com  And, if you listen on Spotify, check out our poll below. You can also catch-up on our Mandalorian, Succession, Yellowjackets and Ted Lasso specials. Our back catalogue of shows includes The Walking Dead, Line of Duty and Stranger Things! We're on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Anchor, Breaker and Radio Public so be sure to subscribe to the pod and please leave us a review.  Thanks as always to JComp for our logo and Roman Senyk Music for our theme.  Adam, Grace, Neil, Chloe, Damo and Izzi

Film and TV reviewer Tamar Munch joins Kathryn to talk about Pathfinders (TVNZ), a local series that looks at Maori leaders who were raised through the challenging years where te reo Maori was shunned. She'll also talk about Netflix's The Diplomat starring Keri Russell as the newly-appointed US Ambassador to the UK and the turbulent relationship to a political star. And A Small Light (Disney) looks at the story of Miep Gies, the Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank's family during World War II.

Anke en Alex staan deze week stil bij de langverwachte HBO-miniserie White House Plumbers, waarin Woody Harrelson en Justin Theroux de twee mannen speelden die met hun acties uiteindelijk verantwoordelijk waren voor de val van president Nixon (ook wel bekend als het Watergate-schandaal). Met zo'n topverhaal, geweldige acteurs én de makers van Veep kan dat niet anders dan een succes worden, toch? Verder bespreken Anke en Alex de nieuwe WO2-dramaserie A Small Light (Disney+), de psychologische horrorserie Dead Ringers (Prime Video) én de schrijversstaking in Hollywood, die op moment van opnemen nét is losgebarsten.❗Word lid van onze Patreon-pagina, waar je tegen betaling extraatjes krijgt, en nu wekelijks kunt luisteren naar nieuwe recaps van Succession.

Une lueur d'espoir, c'est une expression que Miep Gies, la femme qui a aidé à cacher Anne Frank et sa famille à Amsterdam pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, a souvent dite. C'est elle qui a découvert et protégé le Journal d'Anne Frank après l'arrestation et la déportation de cette dernière et qui est l'autrice de Elle s'appelait Anne Frank. Aujourd'hui, elle est l'héroïne de la mini-série produite par National Geographic. Il s'agit d'une nouvelle perspective donnée à une histoire que le monde entier connait, celle d'Anne Frank. C'est grâce à la famille Gies qu'Anne et sa famille ont pu survivre cachés, pendant près de 761 jours d'occupation nazie. Miep, amie et secrétaire d'Otto Frank à l'époque, avec d'autres employés et amis, ont aidé à cacher les Frank pendant près de deux ans. Joan Rater et Tony Phelan (Grey's Anatomy) créent ici une histoire nécessaire, courageuse et qui rend hommage à tous ces héros du quotidien. La série est disponible à partir du 2 mai sur Disney+. https://youtu.be/Iuathp0e014 Une lueur d'espoir dépoussière l'Histoire et rend l'histoire de Miep très contemporaine, forçant le public à se demander ce qu'il aurait fait à sa place, à se demander s'il aurait eu le courage de s'opposer à la haine. Miep est une jeune femme qui semble défier les traditions. Elle rejoint le bureau d'Otto Frank qui devient rapidement un ami en plus d'être son patron. Et quand ce dernier lui demande de protéger sa famille, elle n'hésitera pas un seul instant. Bel Powley mène l'ensemble avec détermination et humanité. Son idéalisme semble presque surréaliste dans un monde où le nazisme ne fait que monter (ce qui pourrait bien être un parallèle avec la société actuelle). Mais c'est bien sa volonté de faire ce qui est juste alors que d'autres ferment les yeux devant des horreurs qui font aussi la force du personnage. En huit épisodes, A Small Light dépeint une Amsterdam de plus en plus hostile, tout en mettant en avant les actes de résistance de Miep et de son mari Jan (Joe Cole de Gangs of London). L'image sépia rappelle le contexte historique, mais permet aussi parfois d'établir une atmosphère anxiogène. Pour compléter le casting, Otto Frank est campé par Liev Schreiber, symbole de la vulnérabilité et de l'impuissance malgré tout l'amour qu'il peut porter à sa famille. Même si l'attention n'est pas focalisée sur les Frank et que les Gies ont aidé d'autres familles, ils n'en restent pas moins des personnages incontournables avec Otto qui en est la pierre centrale. [bs_show url="a-small-light"] Découvrez Une lueur d'espoir sur Disney+ dès le 2 mai.

Most people have heard the name Anne Frank, and many have read her diary, which details her and her family's time spent in hiding during the German occupation of Amsterdam in World War II. Less known are Miep and Jan Gies, two people who helped shelter the Frank family and preserved Anne Frank's diary after she was captured. In this episode, Alison Leslie Gold, who co-authored Miep's memoir, shares their history and what we can take away from their stories. And we'll hear from the co-creators and star of the National Geographic limited series A Small Light about how anyone can step up and be a hero. For more information on this episode, visit natgeo.com/overheard. Want more? The first episode of A Small Light is streaming now on Disney+ and Hulu. New episodes premiere Mondays on National Geographic and stream the next day. Learn more about the book Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies and Alison Leslie Gold. Gold also wrote Memories of Anne Frank about Anne Frank's childhood friend Hannah Goslar and A Special Fate about Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Lithuanian Jews during the Holocaust.  Also explore: How did the Holocaust—which murdered six million Jews and stripped millions more of their livelihoods, their families, and even their names—happen in plain sight? Learn more about the history and how Jews continue to fight anti-Semitism.  Visit natgeo.com/JewishAmerican for more National Geographic stories throughout Jewish American Heritage Month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May the 4th be with you! As always, May 4 is the unofficial holiday dedicated to the "Star Wars" franchise. Co-hosts Bruce Miller and Terry Lipshetz talk about the classic movies and new TV shows, which include the recent end of the third season of "The Mandalorian" and the second season of "The Bad Batch" plus the upcoming "Ahsoka" series.  They also discuss the three new movies that were recently announced at Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023 in London by Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy. James Mangold, Dave Filoni and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy were selected to direct the films. There weren't many details, but Mangold's film will look at the early years of the Jedi. Filoni's movie is expected to tie together the various Disney+ series he's involved with and Obaid-Chinoy's movie will feature Daisy Ridley, who returns to the role of Rey from the sequel trilogy. After "Star Wars," the discussion shifts to the more serious topic of the World War II and the Holocaust. National Geographic launches a new limited series on May 1 called "A Small Light" that follows Miep Gies (Bel Powley) and her husband Jan (Joe Cole), who were critical in the hiding of the Frank family from the Nazis. REVIEW: 'A Small Light' offers new take on Holocaust experience The show also stars Liev Schreiber as Otto Frank, Amira Casar as Edith Frank, Billie Boullet as Anne Frank and Ashley Brooke as Margot Frank. Miller has an interview with Powley and Cole, who talk about taking on the roles and how the themes translate to modern times. Where to watch Watch all the "Star Wars" movies and television shows on Disney+ "A Small Light" on National Geographic and Disney+ Stars Wars & Lucasfilm Rumors In the episode we briefly discuss rumors and speculation about the future of shows and movies from Lucasfilm, which is owned by Disney. Further details to read and watch: SWCE 2023: Three New Star Wars Movies Announced from StarWars.com. Indiana Jones Series Canceled At Disney Plus from Cosmic Book News. ‘Willow' Canceled After One Season On Disney+ from Deadline Victoria Alonso FIRED by Marvel, SNEIDER'S STAR WARS SCOOPS, John Wick 4 Review - THE HOT MIC from YouTuber John Rocha Disney Big Plan To FIRE Kathleen Kennedy! This Is New Now! The Good & The Bad (Star Wars Explained) from YouTuber Mike Zeroh WILL Kathleen Kennedy be Fired Next? BOB IGER RE-HIRED AS DISNEY CEO from YouTuber Star Wars Theory Kathleen Kennedy REVEALS Rey Movie Plot and Luke's Return - My Thoughts from YouTuber Star Wars Theory About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was created by Adobe Premiere and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: Welcome to another episode of streamed and screened and entertainment podcasts about movies and TV. I'm Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer at Lee Enterprises and the co-host of the program, a Padawan, if you will, to Bruce Miller, Jedi Master of entertainment journalism and editor of the Sioux City Journal. Bruce, it's a little early, but May the Fourth be with you! You should have said Yoda, because, you know, I'm that old. I had it in the script. I was going to call you Yoda, but I didn't want you to feel that way. I am so Yoda. It's ridiculous. That's it's is apt and it's fitting and it's me. Plus, if I were collecting anything, it would be Yoda. Got to love Yoda. Always one of my favorite characters. And he didn't show up right away. He wasn't in the first one. The second one? Yeah. Yeah. And I remember now. Okay, so this. This shows you how old I am when they did a big reveal on Yoda for Empire Strikes Back. It was a special press kit that was just about Yoda, and it had a picture and I mean, it was quite the big deal. I remember getting it in the mail and it's like, Oh, what have we got here? This is really great. But I remember back with Star Wars, we didn't know what it was. We had no clue. You know, they talked about serials, they talked about Westerns. They talked about all these things. But when until you saw Star Wars, you weren't really sure what this thing was. And I went to a screening of Star Wars back in. Yes, 1977. And I was unsure the place was packed. And I remember a woman in the in the audience screaming out, Ooh, that Wookie. He's really cute. And so that's what I remember about the first time. I also remember that the vehicles didn't look like they had wheels or they touched to the ground. I thought that was really cool. But it did feel like you were dropped into a world that you had no idea what was going on. It's really amazing when you look back at the Times. I mean, today movies are so overboard with CGI and animation and green screens and everything. The fact that they were able to do a space Western because that's really what it was, you know, you equated it to a Western, but even George Lucas thought of it as a space weren't Western. And it's amazing that they were able to do what they were able to do back in 1977. When was the last time you've seen the original one? A couple of years, probably. You know, it's one of those things that it shows up on TNT all the time. Or my daughter, who's a really So I've got twin girls, but one of them is just hardcore Star Wars like I am. So she'll have it on from time to time. So I'll sit down and watch a little bits of it. But what disappoints me though, these days is they effectively retired the original cuts at the movies and they went to the special editions from the 1990s. But even though those were cleaned up, you still have those elements from the original. Yeah, that the sets are kind of wonky I think when you're running down the hallway and you think, I think I've seen that hallway, it looks very familiar. Well it probably was right when we had it here with a symphony underneath it where they did a live the live score and it's very fascinating. But it was an older version. So you got a chance to kind of delight in in those kind of simpler things. And I think it works better. I don't think you should have messed with that stuff. I thought you should have left it alone because it is a piece of its time, you know? But hey, if you're George Lucas, you do what you want. You can you can do that. Absolutely. So it's, you know, with the I guess, the unofficial holiday, May the fourth with Star Wars. Just thought we would talk a little bit. There's there is some news kind of out there with Star Wars. So we just wrapped the third season of The Mandalorian. We do have the new show, Ahsoka coming up in August. We also wrapped season two, the bad batch, around the same time as Mando. There's another series called The Acolyte, which is due sometime next year. It takes place in what's called the High Republic era, which is is leading into that prequel trilogy that George did in the early turn of the century. And there's some other things kind of coming along, too. But we also had the Andor series last fall, which did very well, Obi-Wan Kenobi, which was kind of mixed reception on that. So there's there's a lot going on. But they just had the Star Wars celebration in Europe a couple of weeks ago in London. And Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy announced three new films. One is going to star Daisy Ridley as Rey. So she's going to reprise her role that she brought forth in the three most recent films from that new trilogy. There's going to be one that takes place in The New Republic, which is post Return of the Jedi. But before the the Rey version comes up. So this is basically taking the the shows that we see on Disney Plus now, and they're going to somehow intersect into some sort of film. And then there's going to be another film that's going to look at the Dawn of the Jedi in the New Republic. So that's kind of what's that's what's on the horizon. There's been some speculation I don't know how much you follow on this, that Disney isn't particularly happy with the direction of Star Wars because the idea originally was they bought it. They want movies coming out left and right. Some of those did very well. Some of them didn't sit so well with the fans. And there's been some rumors out there in the Star Wars universe that maybe Kathleen Kennedy's job is is on the line. If she doesn't produce another Star Wars movie. Her contract, I guess, is up in 2024 and allegedly an ultimate aim was place that they need to have a movie out by 2025. So it's an interesting thing. You've got this huge series, this huge enterprise. I mean, it's a it's a behemoth of when you compare it with all these other tent pole type of, you know, DC Marvel and all these that are continuously putting out films and Star Wars, they kind of sputtered a little bit, but they're still doing very well with the TV programs, it seems. Yeah, I think there are too many things out there. I really do. We waited so long just to get Star Wars films that now they have a glut of them. I, I don't know that that's in their own best interest is I know they want money. I know they're there. There's really we've got to get more money out of this. How can we get more money out of this? Let's do this. Let's do that. Come on, we'll have it. Yeah, yeah, let's do TV. Let's do a podcast. Or how about, you know, and it's just this whole range of stuff and there is a limit to it because if you are new to any kind of franchise, you may not go in, you may not be interested in that because it's too much to learn. I know that was the case with Marvel. People thought that they couldn't get into that world if they hadn't started from the beginning and they need to be a little better about their standalone Star Wars films. And I really think that's where you could fall into Quentin Tarantino's The People who are kind of a marquee name, and let's see what they would do with it. It doesn't necessarily have to follow everything, or it could just be people who were around during the same era but aren't caught up with this this fighting good against evil. Maybe there were people who didn't pay attention at all in Star Wars land to what was going on. You know, was there a PTA meeting going on somewhere? Could that have sparked something? Who knows? And then, you know, they never really do want to toy with anything beyond a PG 13. Why can't there be an R-rated Star Wars film? Yeah, that would be an interesting one. I mean, you can you can maybe get to I mean, it is it's space war. So you could take up the violence level a little bit and maybe and they did it with with the comic book movies. You do have a couple that have gone beyond PG. PG 13, right? It's possible. But you see, it's Disney. So there are kind of those those boundaries that are put into play that I think hinder what they can do. So I. Hey, Kathleen, I'm with you. You just sit there and say, you know what, We can't do everything, but let's try something and let it be standalone. It doesn't shouldn't have to be part of the trilogy for anything that, you know, the how I feel about those I do not want to have to worry about. I've seen too I die and I don't get the third one. That's ridiculous. But you can easily be in that world and still still show us what's what's going on. I'm with you with the standalone movies. I thought that Rogue One is perhaps one of the best movies, Star Wars movies of all time. And it's because, you know, we knew what was going to happen, because we knew that it led up to the original 1977 Star Wars with the Death Star. So we knew going in the movie is basically about them stealing the plans to the Death Star. It was a great movie from start to finish and it's kind of followed through now with Andor the series where, you know, you can only do a couple of seasons of that because eventually there's an end point, right? So I think they really did a great job with that. I'm kind of hopeful that with James Mangold, maybe that's that director that they're bringing in, like you suggest, because he's doing the new Indiana Jones movie, The of Destiny. But he's done Ford versus Ferrari. He did Logan, He did The Wolverine. He did the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line. So he's done a lot of different films and he is an A-list director, so they can bring him. He's got that star power, and it's a little bit different than even when they had Ron Howard, who of course, is a giant in directing because he was brought in to rescue the the Han Solo movie, which was kind of fallen apart. So, you know, here they're going to let him do it from the scratch. I agree to that. I don't want a trilogy every single time, especially after the newer trilogy, which I thought was a bit of a disaster because it was so disjointed. Right, Right. Well, if you look back at the original, the whatever the you call those first three films, George Lucas handed the reins over to Lawrence Kasdan after the the first one and said, You write this thing, let's see what's going on here. And I think those new ideas are what helped keep it fresh and keep it going instead of this huge book that somebody has to go, Well, wait a minute now, according to chapter 33 here, you're not supposed to do this. It's chaos. And I think that's why I've turned off from for Marvel. I really don't want to have to try and remember something that happened in or films prior to this one. Yeah, I think Star Trek had a little problem with that as well, where they're, you know, they're trying to many worlds. And now where are they? I really don't know where Remember the the kind of reboot with Chris Pine? Is that going anywhere? Is that going to be something more or are we going back and looking at old characters like Picard? You know, what is that? And I think it becomes a thing when money people are making decisions and their demanding things by a certain time because they've got to meet a budget or we need to make so much money by this date that it kind of spoils the creativity of the whole thing. Well, that's kind of the thought, too, with where, you know, if those rumors are true, that that Kathleen Kennedy's job may hinge on on a film. Is it or bringing back more films, is that you've got the money people. It isn't just about the storytelling when when Lucasfilm was that standalone company because even if you go back to that original trilogy, the first Star Wars movie, if that thing bombed, it ended. You didn't need to wait for two more movies because it had a beginning, a middle and an end. And at that end, you could have been like, okay, we're good. I don't need to see anything ever again. But they came back with Empire and then return. And I think the other piece of it too, is even though he did hand it off to other directors to kind of tell a story, he was still part of the storytelling process. So it was his concept where he worked with other writers and directors on the finer points, which I think in comparison to the new trilogy, J.J. Abrams was there. I know he was the executive producer on the second one, but he kind of stepped way too far away. And the movie went in a totally different direction. And then he had to come back to kind of rescue the third one, and it just turned into, I guess, a bit of a hot mess. But yeah, you know, Disney, there were rumors that they were going to do an Indiana Jones series on Disney Plus and that has kind of been put on hold. And Willow, I didn't even get a chance to see this Willow series on Disney Plus. And apparently season two was canceled because they're like going all in with the Lucasfilm stuff back into Star Wars. And because that is that is the franchise out of Lucasfilm. So it'll be interesting to see where that goes. The interesting selection and directors of these movies is Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. She is a two time Oscar winner because she won Oscars for documentaries, but she's attached to the film. A little bit of an unknown, but I guess her star has been on the rise because she's done some directing work on the Mrs. Marvel series. Thoughts on her documentaries and short subjects are kind of the gateway to getting into bigger pictures. So she was probably tested through these kinds of things. She has a very female perspective, a feminist perspective that might help play well with something that's seen as a very kind of boys club. And it gives an opportunity for the Star Wars universe to kind of crack open to other stories that could be told, because I think we've kind of worn out our welcome with some of these father son things. I don't think we need to go into that a little more. But she might bring us a whole new a whole new world of of opportunity. And it would be interesting to see what happens. You know, I want to see what are what people are doing in other parts of that universe. And I don't know that we've necessarily seen that they're also caught up with this rebel forces kind of thing. And really, though there have to be it's like today there are people that you can't ask anything about the news because they don't watch the news. They don't listen to the news, they don't read the news. And those are people with a story to to tell. And how do they do it? I think sometimes we get a little too caught up in the mainstream of what people are talking about or what influencers are telling us. We should talk about that. We don't realize that there's a whole subset of people out there talking about nothing that relates to that. So this thing is one of those things. I think he made an interesting point to about a different perspective, because for me, as somebody 47 year old man who grew up on Star Wars when I was a kid, the boys like Star Wars and most of the girls like something completely different. You know, you had some some girls liked it, but it was a boy's club. And I think they really tried to expand it and attract a much wider audience. Now, I think to my daughter, who's 12, who absolutely loves Star Wars, she wants to watch the shows every single week. And if you ask her who her favorite characters are, it's Rey, it's Ahsoka Tano. It's these newer characters that they introduced that have expanded the universe to just more than boys and men. And the Jedi can be a girl, you know, A Jedi can be a woman. Look at how animation was largely seen as, you know, female driven. It always has to have a heroine who falls in love and gets out of her situation. And then they realized, Wait a minute, we've got some boys out there that might be interested in watching animation. And they did do a shift and there were some male kind of dummy and Star Wars was pushed them. They were the ones who said, Get over there, come on, you got to do some male animated films. And we're seeing them now. So I think same thing could happen with Star Wars. So once again, may the force be with you, Bruce, but we'll turn our attention now to a much more serious job and anybody. I do. Yeah. You also on April 20th, one two on people at 420. Yeah we're not not in Wisconsin. I'm based in Wisconsin. That stuff's not that's not going to talk that way, right? Yeah, not here. Not at our borders. That is correct. No, but we're we're going to shift over to a little bit more serious topic now and one based in actual reality coming back from science fiction into history. A slight bit of research. Is that sound like enough? No, sir. But there have been Holocaust films since the early 1940s, 1940 was the first time they ever mentioned a concentration camp in a film. Since that time there has been a Holocaust related film. Every year. It's interesting to see that that's that's lasting like that, but it's one of those things that you need to remind people because otherwise they're going to say it didn't happen. And I think a lot of times you'll see in the documentary categories of the Academy Awards, there will be something about someone. Now that generation is dying out. There aren't many more Holocaust survivors around who can remember what went on or what happened. But what we're finding now is that people are kind of stretching their their boundaries of what stories they already know. And one of those ones is a diary man. Frank, That was a huge, huge, huge book. And it was taught in schools. I don't know if it still is because I don't know if it's on a list somewhere. And then they say we can't teach that one in schools. But it was what a girl viewed the Holocaust situation like. She was hidden in an attic over her father's business. And they couldn't leave. They couldn't go anywhere. And they had their own kind of world, if you will, hoping that somebody they could get out because the Nazis wanted to do something with them, i.e. they wanted to kill them. And so we saw that perspective on the Anne Frank story. We saw her perspective because her father saved the diaries and brought them and said, you know, is this something we could publish? Is there something here so that people know what went on in our world? And now there is a new limited series called A Small Light, which focuses on Miep Gies. Yes. Miep was a secretary of Otto Frank, who was the one who helped him during all of this. She, he said, would you help me get things to my family? Can you be there for us? And will you promise not to tell anybody? In retrospect, meet said, You know, I didn't do anything. It was a small light that I was able to turn on in a dark room and it what she tells us is that there are things we can do, things that maybe we should be looking at now in our own world, where we can make a difference in somebody's life. And we see this with bullying in schools. We see this with loudmouth politicians who are shouting each other down and for no good reason. They're they're sideswiped by people who never asked for this kind of attention. And it becomes a very volatile situation that we don't need to live in. And I think what this limited series tells us is that there are little things we can do along the way that can make somebody else's life a little easier. And why are we doing that? Why am I standing by and not saying, you know what, you're a bully and you need to stop this right now? I always had parents who would stop me and they would say, You are not doing that. We do not do those kinds of things. You are not going to bully somebody. But today it seems like we're a parentless society where nobody tells the people who are in authority or power, you can't do that. You can't treat people like they're somehow lesser than you. You can't make fun of them because why? What are you gaining by that? You're doing nothing. So this is this miniseries here at Roundabout Way. This was me on a soapbox. Did you see that? Dare you to just get the idea that picked up on it. The series lets us know that there are little things we can do, and I think it reminds us that we don't have to be some Schindler's List rescuer kind of person. We don't need to be that guy who runs in, saves a bunch of people, and then you're considered, Yeah, that's what we need to do. It can be something as simple as maybe talking to somebody else, maybe comforting someone during a tough situation. Maybe it's bringing food to somebody. You know, it's so, so simple. And this is a very slow kind of building Mini-Series I'm not saying it's a slow miniseries because it's not, but you see how she grows, how meat grows in the process of all of this. I think it's fascinating. It's one of the best things that we've seen on TV this year. And it starts May 1st, I believe it is is the first first two episodes, and it's eight episodes in all. I got a chance to talk to Bell Powley, who plays Miep Gies, and Joe Cole, who plays her husband, Jan. For them, they were you know, they weren't filled in on what their story was until they started researching it. And interestingly enough, and you'll hear this is that they did not realize that John didn't talk about it. He really did not want people to know his part because he didn't think it was that important. And Miep didn't write a book until many, many years later talking about what she did in all of this. So it's a fascinating, fascinating story. I think you'll be really taken in by it. And you'll also see how contempt jury they are. You know, it's not like the when we see a film that's set in another era, you go, oh, they're old timey people and they just do old timey things, right? And they wear old timey clothes. And these are like so contemporary. You think, I think I could hang with these people. I think these are people that I would like to be around. And that's where sometimes when they do do films about these things, they tend to take away that kind of humanness and they want to set them up on a pedestal and make them something other than real people. And this is one that shows you the real people behind the story. All right. So let's go to that interview and then we'll come back and wrap up the show during this. When did you guys say, could I do what they did? Was there a point in when in the making of this where you thought, do I have what it takes to do what these two did to hide people, to kind of divert people? I think that's what's important about the show. Hopefully it's going to make a lot of people think, could I do what they did? Because it's about two very ordinary people. It's not big sweeping historical statement or like larger than life characters. These are literally just two young people who are going about their lives. You ended up doing really, really extraordinary thing, and they have the same attributes that loads of young people have. I mean, they were newly married. They love going out dancing like she was a big party girl and then their lives were turned upside down when they made this really heroic decision to have hired these eight people. So hopefully it will make lots of viewers think, would I be able to see this Is your answer? Yes. Or is it? I really would. It's hard to. That's such a hard question to answer because it's so late. You just sound like such an arrogant, provocative. So, yeah, I mean, I think what they did was so extraordinary and so incredible. You know, I, you know, thankfully will never be put in that position, you know? But what one kind of a role models for you. But, you know, one incredible thing they did is I see today that there are parallels because, you know, and you go, well, why am I not stepping out of my comfort zone and just saying something to people, say, you know, you're wrong. Yeah. But it's also, you know, the show's called a small light because, I mean, famous quote, anyone, no matter who you are, can turn on a small light in a dark room so anybody can do a little something for somebody. So I'd like to think I could definitely do a little something for somebody. You know. And what they did was was a little something. Somebody turned out to be a huge, huge thing. And they represent a huge number of people also doing that all over all over Europe. You know, they weren't the only ones. I remember seeing another movie about this, and I think I did interview me to really? Really. Yeah. And I did. Really? Yes. Yeah. It was a TV movie that they had done, and I think Mary Steenburgen played her. Yeah. And I don't remember her being as playful as you are in this. Well, obviously, it's in Tony and Joan's take on her and that and that writing of her. But I read her book and Frank remembered a few times that was kind of my main source of research. And her voice really does come out in that book and she does talk like you get the sense that she was quite cheeky and playful and she talks about how much she loves going out dancing and partying with her friends and how she found her husband so attractive. And, you know, the funny kind of conversations she had with Ann. So and then obviously that filtered through Joan Rita, our writer's voice. She very much has those sentiments herself and then filtered through mine. Our take on her is that But I do believe that she was right. That was their relationship a true love thing, or did it grow into a love? It's interesting question, isn't it? I feel that was true. A true love. Yeah. Because because they there was this huge barriers in that way. You know, y'all was married previously me did was wasn't married at 20 sort of into her mid twenties was read at that time and sort of spoke about how she could have gotten her brother come out and she could have got a man who would that and talks about not wanting family and doing things that, you know, possibly do anything in a very different way to how they would have done things in those in those times. There's a there's a there's a process of how how you live your life. You have kids early. You get married, you stay at home. So she's doing things very differently. And John was previously married. So I think that I think definitely that it's more romantic because they really wanted to make this work. And and he had to divorce his partner and all the rest of it. It's like it's a social faux pas. Those things. Did they do all those things in the bathtub? Because I thought, Oh, that's really cool. I mean, I don't know. I know they used to they used to to get away from everybody. They'd go like that. They said that that's a great thing. I think it's a huge, huge idea. Kids were running the bathroom and Susanna direct and like one of the first conversations I have with her is that she really wanted to make this relationship, even though it's a relationship in the forties feel real. Like we wanted to have those small moments of like them chatting together in the bath or like him asleep in bed and like seeing her get ready for bed and like all of the things that make a relationship feel like a tangible to an audience. Sure. Because even though it's in the forties, I feel that was know that a lot of guys don't meet like they don't and that was it was the prep for that And so and I think that's the problem that too many people make is that or they think it's a whole different era and it's a whole different thing and it's like they're us. Exactly. Yeah. What did you two learn from this? What did this teach you? I mean, this is a really good question. I mean, historically, it taught me no end to is, you know, just on on the surface, sort of people have become into this. The prelude is a sort of is the and frank story. Right. So everybody feels like they know I'm frank and they know the story. And it was a young girl in the annex and the rest of it. But I feel like the reality is people don't know the story. And how many episodes of you said you mention that you've seen two. Okay. So there's so much that you're going to hopefully learn and become aware of what was going on outside the annex, what was going on in the streets of Amsterdam. Yeah. So on a kind of more superficial level, if you were like historical level, here's a great deal for me. Just, just sort of kindness can, can win over everything and love and love, kindness and compassion, peace, bees, evil and beat hatred. And and just a reminder to everybody, the title of the show know every day you can fight. You can show the other acts of kindness and they and they feed into one another throughout the day. Sure, you can do that. And so there's always little things you can you can always look good, look for people who look to you. And yeah, I just learned so much about I'm like heroism and bravery on like a small scale from like to ordinary people. There were so many I've even seen two episodes, but like, as you get like into the depths of this show, there was so many anecdotes and stories that we tell that you will watch and be like, That must be made of what these people did. And we had that literally. Every time we got a new script, we were like, Whoa, Tony, Joe, like, is this really do they actually do this? Think the lengths that these people went to when they were literally just a secretary and a social worker and a young people was absolutely insane. So, yeah, I learned so much about being brave and also the amount that one human being can actually do so that that the best, most unfathomable stories are often the ones that are real. Yeah. So we've got it. Well, this Tony's made this up. This is too extravagant and sure and crazy. And it was always true. Thank you guys so much, love. It's amazing. But nice to meet you in great fun and good luck with this. I hope it all turns out to be a huge hit. All right, Bruce, thank you for those interviews. The show sounds fascinating. I think I'm definitely going to tune in and I think we've talked about this before. But, you know, for me personally, I have some Jewish heritage. So to these types of stories I really like to hear, you know, I enjoyed movies like Schindler's List, but even when I was in college, I took the history of the Holocaust, which was just a fascinating semester, very depressing semester. But one of the things they did is the professor, who was a retired rabbi, brought in a friend of his who was a Holocaust survivor. So he spoke to the experiences of what he had to go through, you know, in a concentration camp and showed the tattoo on his arm of, you know, how he was numbered. And one of a couple I've seen a couple of survivors in person. And it's sad because there's really not many of them left. So it's great that we can have stories like this, find ways to to have these stories, to share those experiences, but also, as you said, have a contemporary message as well. And I think there are applications that we can look at. Hopefully, we will never get to the point that our situation today is what it was back then. I've been fortunate to interview a number of survivors and they all have a different story to tell, different things that happened to them, different kinds of people who came into their lives and were the ones who really helped them through a situation. There is a documentary called Nicky's Family that you must see. It is so good. It's about a British, you know, a businessman who helped these children get to safety during World War Two. And he would find them places where he could live. They were they could live while they were separated from their parents or if something happened to their parents. And he he kind of he did this very clandestinely. He was a businessman. He was able to go over to places and he would create passports for them. He would do all this stuff. And he helped kind of get these kids out. It was hundreds that he was able to help. And in this Nicky's family, you must, must, must see it. You see him finally realizing the impact of his work. And they have this kind of, if you will, it's a program, a this is your life kind of thing. And they're introducing that he had done this and telling other people about it. And again, he thought he really I don't know what I did that was all that great. But when he realizes, you know, that somebody is making something out of this, they say, well, now the person next to you, she was one of the ones you helped, and the person next to her was somebody you helped. And before you knew it, it was everybody in that theater was somebody who he had helped and he had never met them. Wow. And here was the chance to see how the man was really, really moved by this that, you know, you do things that you think are the right thing to do, but you never see the results of it. And it is so powerful. But that is one of my favorite films of that era. And it shows exactly what somebody did and how. And children of those Holocaust survivors and how they wouldn't have been around without him helping them out and by just doing what he thought was the right thing to do by creating passports. And you'll see where he cut things out and pictures out and made these passports and got the papers they needed. It was fascinating that this man would do this kind of stuff, and he was knighted for his work. But it's just fun to see this old man just get really tickled by all these people. It's a really cool thing. So that's that's what I think we're our takeaway is that we can do something. Absolutely. So yeah, that's definitely one I'll put on my list to check out. Bruce What are we looking at in the coming weeks? Well, you know, I also like talk about getting to talk to people that make a difference. David Rubenstein is a billionaire who's done a lot of different things, but now he's doing a TV series about American icons, things that are iconic in the United States. Now, I said right away, Well, Mount Rushmore, of course, isn't that an icon? And he said, well, maybe if we do another season there, it might be in there. But he looked at things like the Hollywood sign would be an icon. And it's things that really immediately you identify and you can see something there, but it's a fascinating discussion we have about what is iconic and what does somebody like him with all that money do? And he does collect things. The Declaration of Independence, He has a couple of those. I think he has the papal papers. He he has a Magna Carta that things I've got lying around the house. I think they're in the basement in my house somewhere. I just had to dig them out. But this is what he is interested in. And he says he does it because he wants other people to be able to see these things. And so he loans them to libraries and museums so that then we can go there and say, you know what, people did do these things. They did exist. So his Magna Carta is like me owning a couple of copies of like a Mike Piazza baseball card. Basically, if you kept it in good shape. Or is it near mint? One of those kind of things, you know, because that is there are some guys sitting in a room that says this is a seven. It's just right. Somebody actually gets paid to do that. Yeah, but here's the job I know. And then, and so we have that coming up and then in a couple of weeks too, we're going to look forward to the summer. The summer, it's the big summer. We're going to do it. So there are movies besides Indiana Jones coming out. That's all. Barbie, Barbie, Barbie movie. We've got to get into that, man. Awesome. So we will come back in a couple of weeks and do that. All right. Well, until then, thank you for listening. And we'll be back soon with another episode of Streamed and Screened. Be the small light.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Washington Post national arts reporter Geoff Edgers speaks with actors, Bel Powley and Liev Schreiber, of “A Small Light” about their new series about Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide Anne Frank and her family from Nazis during World War II.

Anne Frank naplójáról talán mindenki hallott már, a második világháborúban zsidó származása révén az életét elvesztő fiatal lány utolsó éveiről azonban a legtöbben csak keveset tudnak. Például arról, hogy Anne másik 7 emberrel bújkált több mint tíz évig 'a hátsó traktusban', ahogy ő hívta.  Ahhoz azonban, hogy ilyen sokáig olyan körülmények között tudjanak bujkálni, (legalább) egy segítő is kellett, aki nem volt más, mint Miep Gies. Ő volt a Frank család fejének, Otto Franknak a titkárnője, majd férjével és pár kollégával a Frank család bújtatója, és róla szól a május 2-tól a Disney+-on megtekinthető 'Anne Frank bújtatója' sorozat, mely bemutatja, hogyan jutottak el idáig, hogyan is teltek a mindennapok a bujtató számára ez alatt a több mint 2 év alatt, és utána. A Micsoda nők voltak! podcastunk legújabb részében Miepről és a sorozatról is mesélünk, amely zseniálisan mutatta be a korszak eseményeit érzéseit.Anne Frank naplójáról talán mindenki hallott már, a második világháborúban zsidó származása révén az életét elvesztő fiatal lány utolsó éveiről azonban a legtöbben csak keveset tudnak. Például arról, hogy Anne másik 7 emberrel bújkált több mint tíz évig 'a hátsó traktusban', ahogy ő hívta.  Ahhoz azonban, hogy ilyen sokáig olyan körülmények között tudjanak bujkálni, (legalább) egy segítő is kellett, aki nem volt más, mint Miep Gies. Ő volt a Frank család fejének, Otto Franknak a titkárnője, majd férjével és pár kollégával a Frank család bújtatója, és róla szól a május 2-tól a Disney+-on megtekinthető 'Anne Frank bújtatója' sorozat, mely bemutatja, hogyan jutottak el idáig, hogyan is teltek a mindennapok a bujtató számára ez alatt a több mint 2 év alatt, és utána. A Micsoda nők voltak! podcastunk legújabb részében Miepről és a sorozatról is mesélünk, amely zseniálisan mutatta be a korszak eseményeit érzéseit.

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It's spring, which means it's time for another season of Major League Baseball. And on this episode of Streamed & Screened, Bruce Miller quizzes co-host Terry Lipshetz on his favorite baseball movies. Watching the New York Mets isn't always easy, so the list of movies that includes "Bull Durham," "Field of Dreams," "Fever Pitch," "The Bad News Bears," "The Natural," "A League of Their Own," "Eight Men Out," "The Sandlot," "42" and "Sugar" can get you through a long season.  They also touch on TV programs such as Ken Burns' "Baseball" documentary that originally aired on PBS, the adaptation of "A League of Their Own" for Amazon Prime Video and "Brockmire" that aired on IFC. The conversation then shifts to the the Amazon Original limited psychological thriller series "Dead Ringers," which is based on the 1988 film by David Cronenberg starring Jeremy Irons. The new series stars Rachel Weisz and we have an interview with co-star Poppy Liu. The show wraps with a look ahead to a discussion about "A Small Light," a new series coming to National Geographic on May 1. The show follows Miep Gies, who helped hide Otto Frank and his family, including Anne Frank, from the Nazis during World War II. Where to watch "42" (2013) "A League of Their Own" (1992) "A League of Their Own" (2022) on Amazon Prime Video "The Bad News Bears" (1976) Ken Burns' "Baseball" (1994) originally on PBS  "Brockmire" originally on IFC "Bull Durham" (1988) "Eight Men Out" (1988) "Field of Dreams" (1989) "Fever Pitch" (2005) "The Natural" (1984) "The Sandlot" (1993) "Sugar" (2008) "Dead Ringers" (2023) on Amazon Prime Video "A Small Light" (2023) on National Geographic About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was created by Adobe Premiere and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: Welcome everyone to another episode of streamed and Screened and entertainment podcasts about movies and TV. I'm Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer at Lee Enterprises and the co-hosts of the program, along with first ballot Hall of Famer Bruce Miller, editor of the Sioux City Journal and a longtime entertainment reporter. I set you up. Good, good, good, good. You did good last week. You were a little disappointed I didn't hold you in high enough esteem. There you go. You know, I called my people. My people said, get him on that. What's going on? This is not right. But that's very good. I'm so thrilled. Baseball movies? Yes. Are you a big fan or not? I am. So, you know, we kind of preview beforehand what we might talk about on the show and I told you yesterday, I am very behind on things right now. I've been watching a little bit here. I'm a little Mandalorian, a little bit of Barry. Season four is back Succession is back. But I'm squeezing these things in because the New York Mets are in the middle of a West Coast swing. So I'm watching games at like ten, 11, 12:00 at night. I'm a huge baseball fan, Bruce. That's all I like. I buy the baseball package so I can watch watch the Mets every game. And I pretty much I probably get 120 games in a year easy. The Mets are your team. They are? Yeah. I'm from New York. Just because my dad, he was a he was a Mets fan. Okay, So I grew up in New York. In Jersey. So it's the jeans. It just. Yeah, do the jeans. That's how that works. And I'm a glutton for punishment, too. Well, you know, it's a lot like being a Cubs fan. It is. When you have that winning gear, it's it doesn't get any better than that. But think of the all the baseball movies then, that you've been able to squeeze in in your lifetime. Which do you like? Which ones stand out for me? Like every year. I don't do this quite as much now because I've got the kids. I've got a lot of lot of things in my life. But I used to be for the season or between the spring training and maybe that first month of the season, I would make it a point to watch as many baseball movies as I could year after year. So the ones that I would go to and so and I did it this year. First movie, I always pop on Bull Durham, always Circle Durham. Yep, because it takes place in the minor leagues. So to me it's like I'm getting ready for a full season of baseball and I love it. It's a great comedy. 1988 you've got Kevin Costner playing that aging catcher who should be kind of higher in the minor league system at that point. You know, he should have been a major leaguer at that point, but he never could quite crack. It wasn't quite good enough for for the big leagues. So they send him down to A-ball to work with a young pitcher who is Tim Robbins. Crazy, crazy. He's off the walls. He doesn't you know, he's a bonus baby and he's got to show him the ropes of both minor leagues of being a professional baseball player. But it's also kind of life coach as well. So and then I love it. Brandon Come on. Sarandon And of course, Susan and Tim Robbins, it's they ended up they never got married, but they they ended up going into a really long term relationship and they have a child or children, I mean, yeah but yeah so there was a that Bull Durham who's jerk struck something, right. Yeah. So Bull Durham is is my go to start movie of the baseball season so not field of dreams Field of Dreams is kind of like that Number two which is another you know Kevin Costner Costner's got that trifecta of baseball movies. So that is actually the one that I turned on second. And I watched it. It was a little bit tough to watch this year because it's about relationships. Is that that relationships between sons and their fathers. It came out a year after Bull Durham, which is kind of funny, but yeah, Field of Dreams, I threw it on. I showed it to the kids for the first time. They enjoyed it this year, but I was like ball in my eyes. Out from start to finish. My my father passed away recently. He's a huge, huge baseball fan. And it was a little tough to watch, especially in that last scene, you know? Yeah. You know, you can forget the field of dreams if you like. Oh, you have already have, Yeah. And did you run the bases? I did know. So I don't know if you know this, but if you go on Sundays or at least when I went at the time, I don't know if they changed anything, but if you go on a Sunday during the summer, they bring out a collection of ballplayers, they walk out of the cornfield and they put on a little bit of an exhibition right there. So it was like, Yeah, yeah. Well then did you get you got down on the field though, didn't you, to take pictures and stuff. Yeah. Oh yeah, Yeah. We, we kind of hung out, We sat on the sidelines, we watched the game is a little, a little long in the tooth, you know, they probably could have shortened it up a little bit, but we took the kids into the corn and walked out and saw the house and bought some trinkets and. And then drove. That was good. Yeah. Do these refreshments or not? They have a concession stand. I believe that you can make some purchases. It's been a few years. I think I was there in 2016, so it's been a while. So this was before they put that big stadium up for. Yeah. Okay. And I know they've I know they've expanded and added in like a more proper concession stand and merch and all that stuff. Like they had things. Then I bought a shirt and something else. A little field of dreams boss, maybe a little toy, but sitting in a box somewhere that I can't find, you know, that was always our vacation. When I was a kid. We would always go see, I'm sorry, the Minnesota Twins, but we would get there before I think anybody did, you know, because the parents were always making sure that we weren't late. And we would sit there and the stadium was empty. There was nobody there. So I had already kind of scoured the whole place, looked at every piece of merchandise. There was eight, like nine different things. And then by the time the game came, I was okay. I could go home. Now that park is in the Mall of America. That's right. Home plate in the Mall of America. But I always remember that. And the twins never won when we were there. So we had to be the bad luck charm for them. Well, I have a little a little Minnesota Twins trivia for you or a fun fact. Okay. So the old days, not super old, but do you remember Tom Kelly, the manager of the twins, in the 1980s? So Tom Kelly, he grew up in South Amboy, New Jersey, which is kind of the area where I lived. I played Little League with Tom Kelly Jr. You're kidding. Was a kid. He was okay. He was good on the team. And there was a time where we were playing a game when I think the twins were in town to play the Yankees and they had an off day. This was the year before Tom Kelly was elevated to manager. I think he was the third base coach at the time and he was hanging out on the on the sides and just watching and taking in the game. But Tom Kelly Jr who sadly passed away he's he's about my age. He's in his mid-forties and he he passed away a year or two ago. Oh no yeah tragically but he had a huge glove which was given to him by a player. So it's like way too big for a 12 year old, ten, ten year old, whatever it was at the time. He had this big puffy jacket that said Hubert Humphrey Metrodome on it. It was fun. Yeah, well, did Dad yell things to him or was he pretty good? He he stayed as low key as possible. He didn't want to. He didn't. I think he he knew his place and that was not managing ten year olds. Did you have those those bad parents though, that did that. I mine were pretty good with watching. I know there are definitely I've run into him I coached softball now there come on I periodically my my parents are pretty good but I've I've had issues with other parents and yeah I hey I know we're have you speak okay well then what about the A league of Their own? Did you like that movie? Yeah, that one's another favorite of mine. But Tom Hanks and I, I have yet to watch that remake the Amazon Prime TV series. You know what? I'm very disappointed. They are only going to do a handful of episodes for season two to kind of butt up. But I think it started in one direction and went in a whole different direction. It was more about, Oh, what's the term I want to use it wanted. It really leaned into the LGBTQ audience and you know, they wanted to somehow say that there were a lot of gay female baseball players back in the day, but it that derailed the whole idea of women being treated equally on the field. And I think it got away from the sports aspect and went into a whole other thing with even like a factory nearby and so I was not as the first episode was fine, but then it started waning and I thought, I don't know if I can watch this anymore. And it's not that I have anything against anything that they were doing. It's just it seemed like bait and switch. So I still want to maybe go back and watch that. The movie itself with Tom Hanks. I watched did a few months ago with my daughters because I thought it would be a really good one for them. They're about 12 years old now and I, I really think it's important in this day and age to make sure that they see really strong female role models. Sure. Because if you think about it, I mean, things like even high school sports, they weren't playing high school basketball until like the seventies. I mean, college basketball for women wasn't really a thing until it didn't really break through until the early 1980s. I don't know. Yeah. And it's really taken a long time for for women. And I don't even think they've gotten equal footing to this point. It's much better than it used to be. So I think it's really important for my daughters to see really strong, positive role models like that in sports. So I it was one that I really wanted to watch with them and they enjoyed it. They did? Oh, good, good. How about how about the natural I'm throwing ones out at you. Yeah, you can do that. The natural. I like it. I don't love it. I think that's one where a lot of baseball fans absolutely love the natural. I thought it was a little bit over the top and kind of almost unbelievable. I do like a sense of reality with my baseball movies and there's tons of of legendary baseball players who can do extreme things. I just thought that that was just a little too much for me. I think it was too glossy. I think it didn't have the the the reality that it needed, you know, what, about 40 to 42 with Chadwick Boseman, that. Oh, I did watch it. I have not I'm trying to think when I did it was really good. I, I think, you know, that's another one of those movies where from a historical standpoint, I love watching that kind of movie I like, especially Jackie Robinson. He, you know, seeing the story the way he broke it. And I love movies that are historically accurate or true. And as somebody who studied history in college, too, and being a huge baseball fan. So yeah, 42 solid movie. Yeah. Well, Chadwick Boseman, if you go back and look at his list of work he played a lot of people who were who existed and that he was so versatile that he'd play these ones. It's amazing that he wasn't nominated for one of those roles because they were always very inspirational and very, very believable. I mean, you bottom is any number of people. Yeah, how he dug in and actually did the work to be a baseball player. So you'd buy the the kind of things he'd do on the on the field. It was interesting. Okay. Sandlot love the sandlot, you know. So there there's one where I still haven't shown it to the kids because I think my wife isn't too thrilled with some of the themes in it. Yeah, it's kind of in that they're, they're 12. They can probably watch it. It's fine. It goes back to I mean, they've already seen it in school. They probably have. I grew up seventies into the eighties. We played so many baseball games in the mid eighties. We would my summers as a 11, 12, 13 year old, we would wake up in the morning, we would walk up to the baseball fields that were at the end of my block. We would play in to lunch, we would go home and get lunch, and then we go back and finish playing until the parents got home and had dinner. So for me, like The Sandlot was just an extension. It was life. It was life. Yeah, exactly. You're killing me, Smalls. Yes. Isn't it funny how that film did produce lines that you can repeat and have repeated? I'm sure it was Bad News Bears then. Were you a fan of that? Yeah, and that's probably of the early movies. One of my favorites. Now they did what was it? Bad News Bears did a bunch of them. They were big. Yeah, they were bad. That original, though, is a classic and I think it gets into even if you played Little League, you always and I was on one of those teams where the coach was like, I had a coach one time who the reason why he was coaching was part of community service because he like it through a trunk. It was like literally the Bad News Bears. We didn't have uniforms. It was really weird. So yeah, the Bad News Bears, I could very much relate to it. It was a fun movie. Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal It's just it's a good one. Well, and they took that template and used it for other other films like The Mighty Ducks. I mean, you could see the things that they had. It's just let's just switch the sports. They'll never know. It's the same film. It is the same film. Yeah, that's all The Mighty Ducks was showed showed the Mighty Ducks to my kids. They did not enjoy it as much as they didn't like it. Now. Yeah. Yeah. Different sport. Yep. What other ones do you like? Are there one and out one for me. So I'm a I'm like just a I could be like a crazy fan. I've mellowed out my old age a lot, but fever pitch. Do you remember fever pitch? Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore. So that one, it's it's based on a Nick Hornby movie. Their book Fever Pitch A Fan's Tale. But it's the book is soccer, Right? And they turned it into a movie where Jimmy Fallon is a crazed Boston Red Sox fan whose team never wins and they fail him every year. And he goes through this whole ritual but at the same time is trying to have like a relationship with with a woman. And, you know, I always thought it's funny that they were doing it. And then while they were filming that movie, the Red Sox actually were good and they had to shoot a new ending for it to capture the fact that the Red Sox won the world Series. But it's a fun one. It's from the same author of High Fidelity. So if you're a fan of of his book, High Fidelity or the movie that came out years ago and even there was even a Hulu TV series, but it's a similar theme, I like to think that I was never quite as crazy as Jimmy Fallon's character in that movie, but I probably was a little bit close. You know, I think it shows that Jimmy Fallon isn't really an actor, Right. But they worked well together. Drew and Jimmy were a good pairing on the screen. It was you know, you don't really need all the extras. I, I do wonder what it's like trying to film something like that, you know? Do you just kind of you're at the park and you do it on the off days and then they bring in the do they have extras or do they just film on a day that, you know, there is a team there? It's it's fascinating to see how they they might play that whole thing. But one of the ones that I like is a series. Okay. Brockmire Oh, yeah. Brockmire. Hank Azaria Yeah, this kind of washed up. ANNOUNCER Yep. Has to go to this. This I don't even know what league it would be team to be the announcer there. And I always thought it was so funny how they tried to maintain the semblance of, yeah, we're, we're, we're professionals. We're. Yeah. What do you mean? And they were so bad. Yeah, but. And Hank can really do that. Yeah. Pretty good at playing that. That kind of a role. I love the first two seasons of it. It kind of fizzled out in that last one. I don't know if you made it through the whole way. It was that that last season was in the future, set in the future, and baseball was kind of on the demise and Oh God, no. It was it was really weird. I enjoyed it. I tried to get if I had another friend that got me into it that he really liked it. We kind of crushed through it one weekend together and it was really good. I've tried to get a few other people into it who just couldn't get into the concept. I think you have to be a certain level too, of baseball fans may be appreciated. He did. Hank Azaria modeled the character off of a little bit off of Lindsey Nelson, who is a broadcaster for the New York Mets back in the sixties and seventies. So did he. Yeah, I guess he did. Yeah. It was a little bit more of a deadpan approach to broadcasting. Maybe I like those kinds of films because it's about losers. Yeah, Yeah. And for some reason you want to just cheer because if it's a winning team, think of any movies that were winning teams. I don't know that there were. It's always the come from behind concept that seems to to work. So Major League major League. Oh, my point, which is funny because I love Ted Lasso, but Ted Lasso is nothing but a major league rip off just soccer instead of baseball. But and I love them both. But but Major League is another one, which I think has all those quotable moments that you can dig out all the time. And it had such a fun ensemble cast of Charlie Sheen. Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Wesley Snipes. It's fine. And it was filmed in Milwaukee, even though it takes place in Cleveland. That first one. Wow. My grandparents went to one of the filming. They they needed fans to fill the stands at county, State Old County Stadium, which is very similar to Municipal Stadium in Cleveland. And did they say it was fun or do they say they enjoyed it? I really was going back. They went and they spent the night. They were I guess they were given instructions to like cheer at this moment and then they would have to cheer six times because they had to keep redoing the take. And that it's kind of funny knowing that having that context that it is County Stadium and that they had to cheer at certain moments. If you go back and watch the movie, even though I can't see my grandparents anywhere in the movie, I can kind of envision them being told, okay, like cheer now, don't cheer now look happy, don't look happy, that kind of thing. Because you can start sort of pick through those moments in that movie a little bit. Yes, yes, yes. Well, somewhere I have baseball cards from Major League. Do you? Yeah. They sent it back in the day. And don't ask me where it is, but, you know, when the vast heap is sorted and multiplied, we'll find it in there and I'll give them to You can have. I appreciate that. You know, Topps, the baseball card company occasionally has done it was like weird subsets within their annual sets of cards and they did one a few years ago with cards for the it was like the anniversary of Major league. And they did cards for that. And they they've done a couple other movies. I can't think of them all offhand, but they've had they've had a few of those in the past where they were. Yeah. You know, they're I had to buy them on the secondary market. I had yeah. They weren't crazy price but they, and they included some inserts like, you know, autographs from Wesley Snipes and but how many did he do. Like two. And then you're really a rapper and you can't find one of them. Yeah, exactly. And that one where the honors kid that's where that went you know, from a historical standpoint to eight months out is another good one. The 1919 Black Sox scandal. Yes, it's a little dense. And I think when I first watched it, when it came out, so that came out in 88 and it was probably around 13 or so when it came out. It was a little dense for me at the time, but I've come to appreciate it now. It's just the audience, you know, you were expecting sandlot and instead more than you cared to know. Another thing that I do like to pop out, I haven't watched it really this year, but was the documentary Baseball by Ken Burns for PBS, which is just a really deep dive into each inning, is basically a ten year span, more or less in the history of baseball. And you can tell that he's a fan. Yes. Just by the way, that all put together. And I'll I'll stop because I can't think of the guy's name, but he brought a I'm a Negro League player and he was featured heavily in the in the series. And the guy was the sweetest man you've ever met. He was just it was really fun to talk to because he talked about a game that maybe we didn't realize it was there. You know, you're out in in Iowa. Yeah. Do you ever see the movie Sugar? Sugar? It's from 2008. It was kind of a low ish budget. I don't know if is made for TV or just one of those that went short term in the theaters and then flew out. But it was really if you if you get a chance, go back and check this one out. It takes place in Iowa. Okay. It follows a player that gets signed out of the Dominican Republic, which is is a big thing in baseball. And it follows him for basically a season where he goes to spring training. He doesn't speak any English. This player, along with several other players who don't speak English, they go out to breakfast every morning and the only thing they know how to order is pancakes. So they they get pancakes every single morning. And then he gets assigned to a team in the Quad Cities and he basically lives with the host family for the whole year but is struggling to adapt. And it follows him through this entire season up until kind of like the end where he he runs into, you know, problems. And it's really heartbreaking because I think they tried to make it as accurate as possible to what a foreign born young player who kind of, you know, he signs a bonus. It's probably you know, it's not a ton of money. It's but but for for a young player who's poor in the Dominican Republic who maybe gets a $10,000 bonus or whatever it was, it's a huge sum of money that he can support his family. But then he's dropped in to America and he doesn't know how to live. He has no connections, he doesn't speak the language. And it's really heartbreaking. I must see that sugar, sugar. I'll look for it. No, I didn't see it. It was not here. So I didn't have the exposure to that. But that does sound fascinating because, you know, there are kind of tropes that they rely on, which is, you know, the losers becoming winners, the bad boy suddenly deciding that he's not he's not going to go in that direction. So you don't get to really see what the reality of the of the thing is. And I always wonder, you know, what about those who get cut? What happens to them and what career do they have after that? And do they still talk about their baseball years or are they you know, that's that's in their past or do they live in the past? And that's all, you know. So there's a good Pete Rose story in there somewhere. So you would I think you would like sugar then because it kind of gets into that check that one out definitely for well, the season has begun. Are you are you as dedicated this year as you were in past years or are you pretty sucked in? I mean, the Mets 101 games last year and they're looking pretty good this year. So I'm I'm I'm going to be locked in for the better part of the summer and will probably be crushed by the end of it. It's going to make it all the way. Come on, you guys are. I'll be crushed. I'll I'll. It always ends in disappointment for me. That's that's life of a mets fan. And then you say, well, I'm just wearing this shirt because I'm a rapper. That's right. That's my, my, my phone. Yeah. You know that the League of Their Own is one of those things that we see now with a trend, as I can see it in television, which is rebooting ideas or concepts and putting them out there on the small screen in a different way. And they did twist that one in a different way. And also the new Greece one, the rise of the pink ladies that goes in another direction as well. And there are other ones down the road, but one that I wish we could talk about is Dead Ringers. The show was a David Cronenberg film with Jeremy Irons, and I remember seeing this thing and it was a scary as you could get because they were two doctors. And you know, at the time when I saw it, I always believe that you trusted a doctor. A doctor was he was citing gospel. So if he said that you needed to use some weird thing that he had invented, like the Mantel brothers do, I would go for it. Right. And then I guess we're a little savvy or now about all those kinds of things. But they've changed. They've shifted it. So it's not twin brothers that are in the medical profession. It's twin women. And they're they're still called Beverly and Elliot Mantle, both played by Rachel Weisz. And they are interested in obstetrics and what they can do with that and how they could control life and birth. And I mean, it opens up a lot of areas that the first film never did, and it talks about the the high cost of medical care and how it isn't necessarily a, you know, kind of a what we would consider a public kind of nonprofit kind of thing. It's a profit center for people. And there are rich people investing in the kind of concepts that the mantles come up with, and they're seeing it as a great revenue stream. And this thing digs into that concept where, you know, they don't really care if they're hurting people in the process. They're going to make some money off of this. So it's fascinating to see how they go through all that. It's a they open it up to a different world and the cast is largely female and the people behind the cameras are female, too. So they're giving a female perspective of all of all of this. I got to talk to Poppy Lou, who plays the assistant to the Mantles. I don't want to call her a maid, but she's certainly there all the time with both Beverly and Eliot. And she gets a chance to see how kind of corrupt they are and what they're doing. And the fascinating thing and you'll see this when you listen to the the interview is that Poppy is a dual in real life. She actually does have birthing experience with other people. And she talks about the life of a dual life. But it is fascinating what she was able to glean from all of this and what she learned from the process. So that's in our interview with Poppy Lou from Dead Ringers. Poppy, can I ask you about being a do a lot. How does that play with this? Did this give you, like different insight or different a different view of everything that goes on in the film? Yeah, I mean, I was a jeweler before this project happened. It kind of was just like a really serendipitous marriage of like worlds and interests. But yeah, I like, I think being a doula is something that so near and dear to my heart. I think about sort of the reproductive state of this country a lot and that I think to like encounter a script that is so captivating and compelling as a story and also is very deeply embedded in the themes of, in my mind, reproductive rights, reproductive justice, the the difference in birthing experience for different people based on their background, their race, their class status, on how much the medical system fails us to have that as an undercurrent, a backdrop for this incredibly visually captivating, dark, moody, sexy story. So cool. I was fascinated by the way the monitor is an aspect of it, how, you know, it's like having a child knowing that we're making money off this and it's like, wow, it literally is, though. Have you seen the documentary called The Business of Being Born? It literally I mean, like even I think this is no shade at all. It's like doctors or unions, like heroes. Incredible love. But it really is the medical system, you know, like like it's really based off of an industrial factory mentality where, like, people are like the products, like you want them in and out as fast as possible. It's based on efficiency, it's based on cutting costs because that's how everything is based, you know, And it ends up being that like the care and like what people actually need to have, like a holistic and even holistic, but just like a, like a positive experience is it is not is it prioritized by how the system works? It's really like, get in, get the baby out or like whatever, and like la la la la. And I think you encounter care through like individual people, but not because of like the system. That to me, that was even scarier than all of the kind of other things, especially when we saw the Cronenberg film where they had all those kind of tools and whatnot that scared the hell out of me. But the idea that everything is so kind of old and calculated, I guess, is what I see it, is that for you, you dealt with both Beverly and Elliot. Yeah. How good is that or how easy was that? Or how fun was that? It's easy and fun cause it's Rachel and she's a genius and it's incredible. But I mean, yeah, we for the scenes where they're where both twins are, and then we just. We have to sell them twice or twice as many takes everything. She'll play it as one of the twins. Katie Hawthorne was incredible, who is both Rachel's body double and also plays the young version of Rachel's mother in the final scenes is incredible, everybody. And she'll stand in for the other twin and you'll just then, you know, they'll be like a 30 minute or whatever changeover Rachel will get from Beverly to Elliot or Elliot to Beverly come back again. And like, I think even when you watch it the way that these two characters are so specifically different, like, like there's even a scene where the two twins, like, they play each other as themselves. And the fact that that's done with so much like, like the specificity and realness, like, I think Rachel's a genius, you know, she's playing two different people and then she's playing them play each other. It's it's fun. All right, Bruce, thanks for that interview. You know, you were talking a little bit about a lot of program now seems to be remakes of things or maybe stuff that's been sitting in development for a little while. We're in this threat of a writer's strike it I correct right. But what is going on there? Well, and it could really delay the fall season. It could make content, you know, kind of disappear. They would end up doing a lot of game shows and things that didn't need scripting. But what they also did back the last time I can remember is they took old scripts and reshot them. So they didn't need to have new writers. They just did old shows and I'm sorry I can't get one off the top of my head. But it didn't work. It was a concept. It didn't work. Reality TV, however, was a good answer to all of that because they said, Well, we really don't need a script there. You know, they're just talking mirror. And so I think they would lean in heavier in that aspect and maybe they would bring back stuff and say, we're going to remake it. I don't know. Interestingly, next week we're going to talk about a small light, which is a National Geographic miniseries. And they had done a movie about the people that are covered in this, but not in such an extensive way. And it's about the people who helped the Franks hide out during World War Two. MEEP Jeez, does that name ring a bell? Meep Geese. She was a an assistant or a secretary of sorts to Mr. Frank and he just he said, you know, we've got to get out. Can you help us? And she didn't pause for a minute. She and her husband were very good at keeping their secret, hiding them, bringing them food, doing all this kind of stuff. And they really never got the attention that others thought they should have because they were very courageous in what they did. Well, now this miniseries opens that up and gives you a real good look at what they actually did and others like them and what kind things they were able to do during World War Two. But I talked to the the stars of that show, and they're a unique perspective, particularly since, you know, they're young and they didn't have a point of reference for a lot of the things that were going on. So that'll be next week. A small light and we'll talk to the stars of that. I saw that live Schreiber is in that is he's out of frame Yeah yeah he you know he's not in it that much but it is one of those ones where you go I didn't recognize them because it isn't it isn't one of those kind of roles that he's used to playing it is, it is a a leap for him as well. Okay. Well, I'm looking forward to that one because as I said, I love historical dramas and as somebody who's got Jewish heritage, it certainly will, you know, be a little bit touching for me as well. They went on location to film a lot. They didn't film the Anne Frank House, but they did film nearby a lot of places. There's one where they jump in the water and what you'll find I thought really interesting about this is that they were far more contemporary. I mean, you know how we think of people in the past, how kind of maybe closed up they are and these are not these people aren't like that. And they were very fun. And Miep is one of those ones who just will. She's not going to think about it if she should do it, just jumps in and does it. And she's very good when she's dealing with the Nazis and how they want her to talk. So you'll enjoy I think you'll enjoy how it how it spills out. And it also tells us that we too, could make a difference if we only speak out and and do what's right. Wonderful. Well, we'll we'll dive more into next week. Until then, thank you for listening. Until then, batter up.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Niemand kon vermoeden dat het dagboek van een Joods tienermeisje uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog nog tot op de dag van vandaag over de hele wereld gelezen zou worden. En wat weinig mensen weten, is dat het bekende roodgeruite schriftje niet het énige is dat Anne Frank tijdens haar onderduikperiode heeft geschreven. Menno Metselaar, werkzaam bij de Anne Frank Stichting, vertelt in deze aflevering o.a. over verzetsstrijder Miep Gies. Zij heeft de persoonlijke bezittingen van het Joodse gezin in veiligheid gebracht nadat ze in 1944 werden ontdekt en afgevoerd. Na de oorlog heeft Mies talloze schriftjes van Anne kunnen overhandigen aan Otto Frank, de vader van Anne. Hoe was het voor hem om al deze teksten van zijn overleden dochter te lezen? Welk verhaal kon Anne op die manier nog vertellen? En wat heeft hij er uiteindelijk mee gedaan?De podcast Topstukken wordt je aangeboden door de VriendenLoterij, dé cultuurloterij van Nederland. Ontdek meer over deze podcast op topstukkendepodcast.nl.

'Dit is het testament van uw dochter, Anne'. Met die woorden overhandigde Miep Gies het rood-wit geruite dagboek met het koperen slotje aan Otto Frank, de vader van Anne Frank. Het was begin augustus 1945. Twee jaar later, nu 75 jaar geleden, verscheen Het Achterhuis, Dagboekbrieven 14 juni 1942 - 1 augustus 1944. Het zou wereldberoemd worden als Het Dagboek van Anne Frank. En in deze jubileumweek verschijnt het boek over het dagboek, getiteld Geschiedenis van het dagboek. Otto Frank en het Achterhuis. De schrijver ervan, Sandra van Beek, is te gast.

Although she never considered herself a hero Miep Gies is definitely a hero in our books.  Without giving too much away, Miep was integral in keeping the Frank family alive in their Amsterdam annexe. She also found, and at great personal risk, preserved the diaries of Anne Frank.  We are truly in awe of her and this story brought us both to tears.  This week we recommended the book of poetry “This Is Where The Healing Starts” by Toni Francis, Afterlife on Netflix and the episode of one of our favourite pods The Imperfects - titled “Georgia & Hugh”  Want to support our show? We are high-fiving anyone who clicks ‘subscribe' on Apple or ‘follow' on Spotify and fist pumps for a five star review. 

Quels mystères planent encore sur le Journal d'Anne Frank ? A l'occasion de la Journée internationale dédiée à la mémoire des victimes de l'Holocauste, (ré)écoutez l'épisode de "Maintenant vous savez - Culture" sur les mystères du Journal d'Anne Franck, l'un des livres les plus importants de notre Histoire. Le mercredi 8 décembre 2021, le film d'animation « Où est Anne Frank ? » sortait au cinéma. Anne Frank était une petite fille juive allemande qui s'est cachée aux Pays-Bas, alors sous l'occupation allemande. Pendant un peu plus de deux ans, elle a rédigé un journal racontant sa vie dans l'annexe de l'appartement de Miep Gies, une femme néerlandaise ayant secouru des juifs pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Mais c'est quoi exactement le Journal d'Anne Frank ? Et pourquoi ce journal a-t-il été dévoilé au monde ? Et que reste-il comme mystères ? Ecoutez la suite dans cet épisode de "Maintenant vous savez - Culture". Un podcast écrit et réalisé par Thomas Deseur. A écouter aussi : Pourquoi certains auteurs détestent-ils les films de leurs livres ? Comment l'écrivain Harlan Coben a-t-il conquis le monde ? Quelle est la terrible histoire de Frida Kahlo ? Vous pouvez réagir à cet épisode sur notre page Twitter. Crédit photo : Patricia Hofmeester Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quels mystères planent encore sur le Journal d'Anne Frank ?   A l'occasion de la sortie en salle le mercredi 8 décembre 2021 du film d'animation « Où est Anne Frank ? », nous nous sommes dit que c'était l'occasion idéale pour évoquer l'un des livres les plus importants de notre Histoire. Anne Frank était une petite fille juive allemande qui s'est cachée aux Pays-Bas, alors sous l'occupation allemande. Pendant un peu plus de deux ans, elle a rédigé un journal racontant sa vie dans l'annexe de l'appartement de Miep Gies, une femme néerlandaise ayant secouru des juifs pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Mais c'est quoi exactement le Journal d'Anne Frank ? Et pourquoi ce journal a-t-il été dévoilé au monde ? Et que reste-il comme mystères ? Ecoutez la suite dans cet épisode de "Maintenant vous savez - Culture". Un podcast écrit et réalisé par Thomas Deseur. A écouter aussi : Pourquoi certains auteurs détestent-ils les films de leurs livres ? Comment l'écrivain Harlan Coben a-t-il conquis le monde ? Quelle est la terrible histoire de Frida Kahlo ? Vous pouvez réagir à cet épisode sur notre page Twitter. Crédit photo : Patricia Hofmeester Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Route naar locatie 2 Je steekt de Lekstraat over. Op nummer 150, was ooit gevestigd De Hebreeuwse Boek- en Ritualiënhandel van E.H. Onderwijzer. --- Stem: Job Cohen Productie: Freek Schröder Afbeelding: Stadsarchief Amsterdam (ca. 1937) --- Transcript 'De Synagoge' Het Verzetsmuseum was tot 1998 gevestigd in deze synagoge in de Lekstraat. Sinds 1999 zit het museum in Gebouw Plancius aan de Plantage Kerklaan, tegenover de ingang van dierentuin Artis. In de collectie van het museum bevindt zich één document dat de geschiedenis van de synagoge direct verbindt met de geschiedenis van de Jodenvervolging. Het is een lijstje van verkoopadressen van de gele Jodenster gedateerd op 29 april 1942. In Zuid kon men daarvoor terecht bij de synagoge. De ster moest uitdrukkelijk zichtbaar op de kleding worden gedragen. Sommige niet-Joden spelden, uit woede over deze vernederende maatregel en uit solidariteit met hun medeburgers, ook een gele ster op. De oude Jodenbuurt werd schertsend Hollywood genoemd - dit grapje was eerder al in Warschau bedacht, toen daar de gele ster werd ingevoerd. De Rivierenbuurt, vertelt Miep Gies in haar boek Herinneringen aan Anne Frank, heette even de Melkweg. In het Verzetsmuseum is ook een papieren ster te zien met het opschrift ‘Jood en niet-Jood één in strijd!' Deze papieren ster werd in een oplage van 300.000 strooibiljetjes verspreid door de groep rond het revolutionair-socialistische verzetsblad De Vonk, op 1 mei 1942. Een deel van de oplage liet men van het dak van De Bijenkorf neerdwarrelen op de Dam en het Damrak. De Duitse politie beëindigde deze demonstraties met harde hand. Uitingen van solidariteit en medegevoel met de Joden waren ten strengste verboden. Sinds de jaren twintig waren veel Amsterdamse Joden verhuisd naar Zuid. Lang niet alle nieuwkomers waren trouwe gelovigen. Toch bestond er volgens de Nederlands-Israëlitische gemeente in Zuid behoefte aan een buurtsynagoge van flinke afmetingen; mede door de komst, sinds 1933, van Joodse vluchtelingen uit Duitsland. Vluchtelingen die een deel van hun bezit hadden weten te redden, konden in Zuid gemakkelijk woonruimte vinden. Als gevolg van de grote crisis stonden huizen met relatief hoge huren vaak leeg. Voor het ontwerp van de nieuwe synagoge werd onder Joodse architecten een prijsvraag uitgeschreven. De inzending van de jonge architect Abraham Elzas kreeg de voorkeur; het viel op door strakke, doelmatige vormen. Het was een staaltje van functionalistische ‘nieuwe zakelijkheid'. Liefhebbers van de Amsterdamse School, die gruwden ervan. De synagoge werd op 30 november 1937 ingewijd. Een verslag van de inwijding meldde: ‘Van het nieuwe bedehuis wapperde de Nederlandse driekleur en ook vele omwonenden hadden op deze wijze van hun medeleven met het voor de Joodse gemeente feestelijke gebeuren getuigd'. De synagoge bleef in gebruik tot de laatste Joden werden weggevoerd, in september 1943. Vervolgens diende het gebouw nog als opslagplaats van meubels, afkomstig uit de inboedel van weggehaalde Joden. Na de oorlog gingen overlevenden van de massamoord opnieuw naar de sjoel in de Lekstraat. Veel plaatsen bleven leeg en in de loop der jaren daalde het aantal bezoekers. Rond 1978 begon de Joodse gemeente om te zien naar een nieuwe bestemming voor het gebouw. Gesloopt werd het niet, omdat het bijzonder en zelfs monumentaal is. In 1985 kon het Verzetsmuseum er zijn intrek nemen. Toen het museum in 1999 verhuisde naar Gebouw Plancius nam een veilinghuis intrek in een deel van de synagoge. In het andere deel van het gebouw worden nog altijd sjoeldiensten gehouden. In 2005 is het gebouw, dat een Rijksmonument is, gerestaureerd. Het deel dat wordt gebruikt voor de sjoeldiensten is in oorspronkelijke staat hersteld.

Route naar locatie 5 Je gaat de Hunzestraat in. Op nummer 25 woonde in de bezettingstijd Miep Gies. --- Stem: Job Cohen Productie: Freek Schröder Afbeelding: Verzetsmuseum (Op dit zolderkamertje zat van 1943 tot de bevrijding de joodse jongen W. Content ondergedoken) --- Transcript 'Onderduikplaats' Hier was een onderduikplaats. Een klein kamertje met een hoog raam diende als schuilplek wanneer de politie gevaarlijk dichtbij kwam. Joden die het verhaal dat het in Duitsland of Polen ‘best mee zou vallen' niet konden geloven en die nog een mogelijkheid zagen om te ontsnappen, zochten een schuilplaats bij niet-Joodse medeburgers; en soms lukte dat. Later wilden veel niet-joodse mannen die zich onttrokken aan de Arbeitseinsatz, de gedwongen tewerkstelling in Duitsland, zich ook verbergen. Onderduiken voor de ‘arbeidsinzet' werd vanaf 1943 een massaal verschijnsel. Ook verzetsmensen die door de politie werden gezocht kozen een schuiladres om van daaruit hun activiteiten voort te zetten.

Route naar locatie 6 Je vervolgt je weg door de Hunzestraat. Je steekt de Uiterwaardenstraat over en slaat bij de Zomerdijkstraat, rechtsaf. Het tweede deel van het huizenblok rechts zijn atelierwoningen. Op nummer 22 woonde de beeldhouwer en verzetsman Gerrit van der Veen. --- Stem: Job Cohen Productie: Freek Schröder Afbeelding: Anne Frank Stichting --- Transcript 'Miep Gies' Miep Gies voorzag de familie Frank, toen de Franks ondergedoken zaten in het Achterhuis aan de Prinsengracht, van voedsel en andere benodigdheden. Na de arrestatie van de bewoners van het Achterhuis, op 4 augustus 1944, ontdekte zij het dagboek van Anne en bracht het in veiligheid. Zij komt onder de naam Miep van Santen in het dagboek voor. In 1933 was Miep in dienst getreden bij een firma die pectine verhandelde, een ingrediënt waarmee huisvrouwen zelf jam konden maken. Dit was de firma van Otto Frank. Met Otto Frank, zijn vrouw Edith en hun dochters Margot en Anne raakte ze al gauw bevriend. Miep had oorspronkelijk de Oostenrijkse nationaliteit. Ze werd in 1909 geboren in Wenen. Na de Eerste Wereldoorlog kwam ze met een groep andere Weense kinderen naar Nederland om aan te sterken. Ze keerde niet naar Oostenrijk terug, maar groeide op bij een Nederlands pleeggezin. Later leerde ze de Amsterdamse gemeenteambtenaar (maatschappelijk werker) Jan Gies kennen, met wie ze in 1941 trouwde.

Route naar locatie 9 Vanaf het woonhuis van Anne Frank keer je terug naar de hoek Merwedeplein/Waalstraat. Je gaat dan rechtsaf. Voorbij het plantsoen ga je linksaf de Jekerstraat in, die je volgt op het rechter trottoir. In de Jekerstraat woonde in 1943 op nummer 46-2, Ans van Dijk. --- Stem: Job Cohen Productie: Freek Schröder Afbeelding: Anne Frank Stichting (rechts is Anne Frank, 1936) --- Transcript 'Anne Frank' Anne Frank, in 1929 geboren te Frankfurt am Main en in maart 1945 gestorven in het concentratiekamp Bergen-Belsen, woonde hier met haar vader Otto, moeder Edith en haar oudere zusje Margot. 12 juni 1942 kreeg ze voor haar dertiende verjaardag een dagboek cadeau. Haar aantekeningen hierin namen al gauw de vorm aan van brieven aan ‘Kitty'. Het dagboek van Anne werd na de oorlog door Otto Frank gepubliceerd. De familie Frank was van Duits-joodse afkomst. Otto Frank week in 1933, nadat Hitler aan de macht kwam, naar Nederland uit. In Amsterdam trof hij voorbereidingen voor een nieuw bestaan. Vervolgens liet hij zijn gezin overkomen. Anne arriveerde het laatst; ze had een tijd gelogeerd bij haar grootmoeder in Aken. Na het begin van de Duitse bezetting probeerden de Franks zo veel mogelijk het oude leven voort te zetten. Ze schikten zich naar de anti-Joodse maatregelen, die stapsgewijs werden ingevoerd. Op 20 juni 1942 somde Anne een aantal van die maatregelen op in haar dagboek: ‘Joden moeten een Jodenster dragen. Joden moeten hun fiets afgeven. Joden mogen niet meer in auto's rijden. Joden mogen alleen van drie tot vijf uur boodschappen doen en alleen in Joodse winkels, waar ‘Joodslokaal' op staat'. Het breekpunt kwam voor de familie Frank op 5 juli 1942, toen Margot een oproep ontving voor de arbeidsinzet in Duitsland. De volgende dag dook de familie onder in het Achterhuis op de Prinsengracht 263. Op het Merwedeplein staat sinds 2005 een standbeeld van Anne. In 1994 had kunstenaar Jet Schepp het beeld al gemaakt. Dit beeld is toen echter niet in Amsterdam geplaatst maar in Purmerend. Door een handtekeningenactie van boekhandel Jimmink, gevestigd vlakbij het Merwedeplein, is er een grotere versie van het beeld gemaakt dat op het plein is geplaatst. Margot werd door Miep Gies naar het onderduikadres gebracht. Ze gingen met de fiets. Een riskante onderneming, want Joden mochten niet meer fietsen. Margot had de ster van haar kleding verwijderd. De overige drie gezinsleden gingen lopend naar de Prinsengracht. Niet met de tram; die was voor Joden verboden. De kleding die ze dachten nodig te hebben trokken ze aan, in lagen over elkaar. Verder namen ze weinig mee. Met koffers zouden ze teveel opvallen. Miep Gies was er bij toen het gezin zich in de schuilplaats installeerde. Zij kon zich ‘nauwelijks voorstellen wat ze voelden nu ze afstand hadden gedaan van alles wat ze op de wereld bezaten: hun huis, het verzamelde bezit van een mensenleven, Anne's poes Moortje. Souvenirs van het verleden. En vrienden. (…) Ik liet hen maar gauw alleen'.

Anne Frank jest jedną z najbardziej wpływowych i najczęściej czytanych pisarek XX wieku, a jej książka została przełożona na 60 różnych języków. A jednak nie dożyła ona dnia, gdy jej dziennik wydany został po raz pierwszy. Nie dożyła nawet swoich 16 urodzin. Oto historia nastoletniej Żydówki, która wraz ze swoją rodziną spędziła 761 dni ukrywając się przed nazistami. Oto historia dziewczynki, która pisała swój dziennik wierząc, ze kiedyś go wyda i stanie się on świadectwem jej niezłomnego ducha! Podcast możecie wysłuchać na: Apple Podcasts (iPhone): https://tinyurl.com/podcasthistorycznyapple Google Podcasts (Android i na komputerze): https://tinyurl.com/Podcasthistoryczny Każdej aplikacji podcastowej: Wystarczy wpisać "Podcast Historyczny" Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/historycznyspotify Youtube: https://youtu.be/DD2d4uKgOvg Dziękuję moim Patronom: Łukasz Otremba, Bartosz Szarowar, Daniel Podlejski, Łukasz Kornacki, Jerzy Bogumił, Łukasz Wroński, Franciszek Wójcik, kamila marynicz, Piotr Panek, Sebastian Szary, Katarzyna Łozak, Paweł Włuka, Wojciech Ziętek , Maciej Zalachowski, Jan Kowalski, Konrad Sawras, Marta Bernard, Maria, Tomasz Wrotniak, Rafal Stankiewicz, Leszek Sztokinier, Marian Zawodny, Paweł Zieja, Oliwia , Adam Pietrysiak, Mateusz Banaszek, Tom Romanowski Przemysław Korolczuk, Ola Gradowska, Elzbieta Multan-Putur, Paweł Piotrowicz, Michał Kozłowski, Dawid Ruman, Jacek Białecki, tirey93, Aleksandra Mielewczyk-Gryń, Kamil Sołoducha, Rafał Bogumił, Wojciech Krupa, Marek Domaradzki, Jacek Woźniak, Grzegorz B-ki, Krzysztof Adamski, Łukasz Działo, Kacper Delfin, Maksymilian Szczepaniak, Rafal Jeziorek Mariusz B., Piotr Pietrowski, Monika Flanagan, Michał Misiarek, Jakub Żurowski, Łukasz Prażewski, Ewa Wardach, Maciek Walusiak, Jakub.Kłobut, Dawid Stoch, Adam Kozłowski Radosław, Łukasz Kolasa, Kamil Rowiński, Magdalena Migas, arek.zysk@onet.eu, Paweł Mazurkiewicz, jacek kaleta, Marcin Dalibor, Karol Biegun , Anna Mazurek, Sabina Rokita, Filip Ślusarski, Jakub Pawłowski , Grzegorz Skowron, Maciej Golański, Wojciech Krauze, Jakub Syrek, Patryk Piekarczyk, Piotr Zięba, Magda Dziubak, Vielebny, Karol Durasiewicz, monika Włodarczyk, Michał Jasiewicz, Szymon Swoboda, Pshemsky, Krzysztof Góźdź, Kacper Kandefer, Zbigniew Bociąga, Maciej Neumann, Dominik Kochowicz, Artur Ogonowski, Gabriela Prokopowicz , Marcin Barański, Magdalena Ślachetka, AgataM, Maciej Piela, Tomasz Kwietniewski, Kamil Witek, Mateusz Księżopolski, Jarek Slizewski, Klejnot Nilu, Daniel Królak, Paweł Kamiński, Łukasz De, LL LL, Daria Armańska, Camilio111, Aleksander, Sawiuk, Kasia Niemczyk, Michał Moczulski, Alicja Wd, Andrzej Bolewski, Izabela Jędrzejczak, Przemek Pacek, bartek kooasdasd, Aleksander Kula, Grzegorz J, M M, Dominik Kuna, Krzysztof Borowiec, P Re, Mariusz Wolski, Ania Jędrowiak, Jarosław Budzianowski, Rafał Labryga, Alicja Łaszcz, Mateusz Myga,Tomasz Woźniak, Szymon Piltz, Adam Kaczmarek, Marcin Nowacki, Krzysiek Lada, Krzysztof Duszynski, Łukasz Ostrowski, Arkadiusz Sałek, Jehoszafat Zimnowoda, Wojciech Woźniak, Adam Grabowski, svsori蠍, Jakub M, Mateusz Rutkowski, Mariusz Bąk Oraz Patronom Anonimowym: Marta i Dominik, Bartosz, Alina, Joanna, Artur, Jakub, Robert, Krzysztof, Monika, Wojciech, Piotr, Mateusz, Sabina, Mateusz, Aneta, Mariusz, Krzysztof, Katarzyna, Kamil, Grzegorz, Justyna, Zuzanna Dajecie mi wysokooktanowe paliwo do działania! Wesprzyj Podcast Historyczny: https://patronite.pl/podcasthistoryczny/description Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/podcasthistoryczny Muzyka:muzyka: Open Music Revolution (www.openmusicrevolution.com) AshamaluevMusic: https://www.youtube.com/c/ashamaluevmusic Whitesand: https://whitesand.bandcamp.com, https://open.spotify.com/artist/3GXunV3wsCpSdKp0L5tcNH Zrodla: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank https://www.annefrank.org/en/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_in_World_War_II#German_occupation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_during_World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank_House https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Frank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen-Belsen_concentration_camp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Red_Cross_and_Red_Crescent_Movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miep_Gies

In this episode, I welcome Maggie Rader! Maggie is an AEA actor and Dramatists Guild playwright based in Cincinnati, Ohio. She shares some funny and touching stories about growing up and starting her career in children's theater. Maggie brings a unique perspective to the question of whether art should be inclusive or exclusive, and why context matters.  Get in touch with Maggie Rader: www.maggielourader.comWatch "Drunk Santa Christmas Spectacular" online: https://www.cincyshakes.com/event/drunk-santa/  Support Artfully Told: www.paypal.me/elevateartArtfully Told links: www.facebook.com/artfullytold | www.artfullytold.podbean.com | elevateartskc@gmail.comGet a free audiobook through Audible!  http://www.audibletrial.com/ArtfullyToldSchedule your interview with Artfully Told! https://calendly.com/artfullytold/podcast-interview Episode 30 - Maggie RaderLindsey Dinneen: Hello, and welcome to Artfully Told, where we share true stories about meaningful encounters with art.[00:00:07] Krista: I think artists help people have different perspectives on every aspect of life.[00:00:13] Roman: All I can do is put my part into the world.[00:00:16] Elizabeth: It doesn't have to be perfect the first time. It doesn't have to be perfect ever really. I mean, as long as you, you're enjoying doing it and you're trying your best, that can be good enough.[00:00:24] Elna: Art is something that you can experience with your senses and that you just experiences as so beautiful.[00:00:32] Lindsey Dinneen: Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Artfully Told. I'm your host Lindsey, and I am so excited to have as my guest today, Maggie Lou Rader.[00:00:43] Maggie Rader: Hello![00:00:44] Lindsey Dinneen: She is an-- hi!!  She is an AEA actor and Dramatists Guild playwright based in Cincinnati, Ohio. And so thank you so much Maggie for being here![00:00:58] Maggie Rader: Oh, thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to talk to another person![00:01:04] Lindsey Dinneen: Right? Yes. And I would love if you would share with our audience just a little bit about maybe who you are and your background and whatever you want to share.[00:01:15] Maggie Rader: Yeah, absolutely. I grew up in Southwest Oklahoma in a really, really teensy town, got out and moved to the big city of Kansas City, Missouri. And, got a four year graduate degree. I may as well have been living in Manhattan. I thought it was the most cosmopolitan. It's like, oh my God, there's a Starbucks on every corner. And, I was lucky enough while I was there to study at Oxford University and go overseas, and then for grad school, I actually went back to England and studied at the Birmingham School of Acting in the UK and came back to the States, toured around for a little while doing children's theater, which is the best acting experience I've ever had because third graders are the most honest audience of all time.[00:02:00] And then I've been in Cincinnati for 10 years. This is my--it's my 10th season as a resident actor at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. But I'm also lucky enough to perform at other area theaters in Dayton and Louisville. I'm living here in Cincinnati with my husband and three fur babies with four eyes between them. And we're both lucky enough to make our living performing on stage most of the time, not right now, but in our normal lives, that's what we do.[00:02:31] Lindsey Dinneen: Yes. Yes. I think everyone's idea of normal has shifted a bit lately. Awesome. Okay. So something peeked my interest--well, everything--you're obviously super accomplished, but something tweaked my interest immediately. And you were talking about children's theater and I was wondering if you wouldn't mind sharing some of the differences between performing for kiddos versus performing for adults.[00:02:55] Maggie Rader: Oh, sure. It's the highs and the lows are just so much higher and lower. Like I have performed, what I did is I toured around with Kentucky Shakespeare for an entire year. I did about 500 performances of this two-person "Taming of the Shrew," that was all about manners and, you know, doing "Taming of the Shrew" for kids--doing "Taming of the Shrew" anyway, is a bit problematic. And if you don't address the problematic nature and why it's still important to do the play cause misogynists and misogyny still exists today, so why do we pretend like it doesn't? And these kids would always, they actually asked the most insightful questions. Like "Why was Kate so mean?" It's like, "Well, why do you think she was so mean?" And like, "Well, her dad, wasn't very nice to her." And it's like, yeah, a lot of adults don't pick up on that. It's like, "Yeah, I'd be mad too if my dad treated me the way he does and my sister was treating me the way that she does." And, but they are just the most honest audience. Ever. And that includes if you were being funny or not. And, more than once we did have kids leave the gym or wherever we were performing and there was, there were puddles on the floor cause they were laughing too hard. And it's just the cutest thing. It's like, "I'm so sorry you pee your pants," but what a great compliment, I guess.[00:04:18] Lindsey Dinneen: Oh indeed.[00:04:21] Maggie Rader: So it's, I, I encourage all my students when I'm teaching people coming out of college, do one year of performing for kids. You are going to learn more about your craft and yourself, and you're going to get more performances under your belt. Then if you perform in a live fancy theater for adults, which is really fun and really great, but I would not be half of the actor I am today if I hadn't done children's theater at first.[00:04:46] Lindsey Dinneen: Absolutely. Yeah. It's so fun to perform for kids. I think I love what you said that they're the most honest audience. I mean, they really are. I remember performing back a few years ago, we used to do a show and two out of the four or five shows that we did were for kids specifically. And it was always so fun because they would laugh and they would comment and they would cheer and they were so involved, versus the adults sort of just sit there. And it's awkward, cause sometimes when things are intended to be funny, you don't get any response and you're kind of like, "Well, that was fun."[00:05:29]Maggie Rader:  It's true. You know, even as we perform now, you know, in the big fancy theater for adults, especially doing Shakespeare, we still do a lot of educational matinees for students. And depending on what show we're doing, depends, you know, we did a "Midsummer Night's Dream" a few years ago, so we did have a lot of younger students come to see it. And my favorite thing about doing Shakespeare for kids versus adults is there so much direct address, and you know, when Shakespeare was being written, they intended for the actors to go talk to the audience and that they're probably going to respond to you because there was no concept of the fourth wall until after Shakespeare's death. And so when you perform for kids and you go ask them to be, or not to be, and when they, they respond, obviously to be, that'd be stupid, Hamlet. And when they actually respond to you, and the adults don't because, you know, there's this stigma of  Shakespeare. And I must sit and listen and let the poetry wash over me and kids are actually involved. It's like, you know, when Puck comes out on stage and the kids tell Puck where everyone is. Like, oh, it's, it's delightful.[00:06:42] Lindsey Dinneen: Oh, I love that. Yes. So I'm sure this is going to be one of those terribly difficult questions to answer, but is there a play that stands out to you as being your favorite, either to perform or to watch? I know. You can pick a couple.[00:07:01] Maggie Rader: What a good, good, good question. One of my, I think my dream role of dream roles was to play Maggie the Cat in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." And, I got to do it--oh, in 2017, I think-- it was a few years ago and it was just so much fun. You know, we worked with a really great director called Michael Haney who works in Missouri a lot, as well, but, oh my gosh, when that play is done well, and it moves and it's quick. You know, the audience came every night expecting, you know, the Elizabeth Taylor movie, which, oh my gosh, the script is awful. Like they just absolutely decimate the story and they take the onus away from Maggie at the end and they make it Brick's choice to go upstairs and, and they just completely changed the ending of the play.[00:07:54] And so it's fun to do plays like that, where the audience thinks they, they think that they know the story. Like "Romeo and Juliet." Everyone thinks that they know "Romeo and Juliet," but when you start making sex jokes and the audience is completely taken off guard, it's like, well, it's the dirtiest play in the cannon. There's a lot of sex jokes, but it's really fun to do those plays that the audience, especially our smart adult audiences think they know, but they don't. And so I think "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" was, it was a really special one for me and it was, it, you know, it's always nice when other people appreciate. And it's, it was nice to hear that the staff at the theater, still a lot of them think it's their favorite show that we've done in our new space. And, that always does my heart good. However, if I'm going to go watch a play, I want to watch August Wilson's "Fences" every day of the week. It is one of the most beautiful pieces of poetry and life I've ever seen. August Wilson's "Fences," maybe one of my favorite plays of all time. I never going to be in it, but there is not a role for me in it, but by golly, I love watching it.[00:09:12] Lindsey Dinneen: Oh, I love that. So I'm curious, have you always been very brave, so to speak, and bold, or did you ever deal with stage fright or how did that all evolve?[00:09:26] Maggie Rader: You know, I think I'm just one of those dumb, lucky people that it's never occurred to me to not just be loud and say what I think. And I, I'm sure-- I know you know my father and I'm sure that when I, the very first time I ever performed was in kindergarten. And you know, my father will also tell you, I have about as much patience as he does, and they were all auditioning us for our, we were doing this Valentine's Day variety show, as you do in kindergarten. And I wanted to do the Valentine's dance with the beautiful Craig Johnson. Oh, my gosh. What if Craig Johnson listens to this? Craig, I had such a crush on you in kindergarten! And I just wanted to do the Valentine's dance with Craig Johnson and they were auditioning kids for the "12 Days of Valentines." Like the "12 Days of Christmas." And the first day of Valentine's was "a fox in a fur coat." And if you count the syllables, there's not enough syllables. So it had to be "and a fox in a fur coat" at the end, and it makes no sense. And all these kids were tripping over it and couldn't get it right. And they're parading all these kids up trying to say, "and a fox in a fur coat." And I was getting so frustrated that they. I finally just slapped the table, stood up and said, "Guys, how hard is it to say "and a fox in a fur coat." And I sat back down, and stupid me, got the part when I didn't even want it. And I didn't get to do the Valentine's Day dance with Craig Johnson.[00:11:04] Lindsey Dinneen: Oh, but it launched your acting career. That is a fantastic story. Oh, my word, I love that. So then did you ever get to have a dancing role or was that like, "I really wanted it then and didn't need it later on."[00:11:26] Maggie Rader: You know? No, I've done two musicals in my entire life. One of them was in college. I had to do "Pippin." I had to do "Pippin." It was my senior year. It was the first musical they'd done in a really long time. And I didn't go and audition because I can't sing or dance. And the head of the department called me into his office and he said, "Maggie, I noticed that you didn't audition for 'Pippin.'" Oh yeah, "No, not at all." And he said, "Maggie, you're going to be in 'Pippin.'" It's like, "I don't want to be in "Pippin." I will fail at "Pippin." And I would rather not be in 'Pippin.'" And he said, "Suck it up, deal with it. You're in 'Pippin.'" And so I had to be a player in "Pippin" and I still don't like that musical. I think it's weird. Like, it's not even just weird. I just don't think it's very good. And maybe I'm... might be treason when it comes to musical theater, but I don't like "Pippin." I don't like the music. I just don't like it and..[00:12:25] Lindsey Dinneen: That's fine![00:12:26] Maggie Rader: And I have bronchitis the whole show, so I couldn't even sing. So I was lip-synching the whole thing. And then some fool cast me--I was very blonde in college--some fool cast me in "Sugar." And "Sugar," the musical, which is the musical version of "Some Like It Hot" and it's not a very good musical. It didn't run on Broadway for very long, but I had to play Sugar Shell in "Sugar," the musical, and the sweet music director stayed after and coached me through the songs. Cause I don't have a very good ear for music, and luckily I didn't have to dance that much in it either. But I do, because of Shakespeare, we tend to do bergamasques at the end of the shows, which, well, the end of the comedies. In Shakespeare's day, every play, whether it was comedy, tragedy, or history, they did a bergamasque, a dance at the end of the show. So, you know, it's the smothered Desdemona gets up from the bed and does the bergamasque dance at the end of "Othello." But so I've had to do lots of dancing in Shakespeare, but luckily I'm doing it with a bunch of other Shakespearian actors and I move better than most of them, which gives me hope.[00:13:35]Lindsey Dinneen: Well, there you go.[00:13:38] Maggie Rader: So I had to do it, whether I liked it or not.[00:13:41] Lindsey Dinneen: Okay. Fair enough. Okay. So what was the moment or maybe series of moments that led you to realize, "this is my calling?"[00:13:51] Maggie Rader: You know, I think like many artists, who, who live in cities-- you know, the arts gave me an outlet in high school. High school wasn't fun. Was high school fun for anybody? If it was, I don't think I'd trust them.[00:14:05] Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah, I don't either.[00:14:08] Maggie Rader: Yeah. And it, it gave me something to do when I was living in a really small rural town and didn't have a ton of friends and, but I quickly found out, I like this. I'm good at this. This is fun. And I auditioned in college. I was going to be a radio production major in college, but then they ended up selling the the radio station and the entire program. So I was like, "Well, do I switch schools? Do I, what do I do?" And luckily I had a really lovely head of the department--who made me do "Pippin" later, but I'll forgive him-- but he said, "You know, I think you could do this if you wanted to." And it just never really occurred to me that I could be a professional stage actor. I thought, "Oh yeah, I can do radio. I can, you know, do news broadcasting." And there are avenues that I can do that are still performance, but it's probably a more responsible career choice. So I was really looking at a journalism and things like that. Oh, well, cause it's, this is what I love to do, so I guess I'll try it,  and I kind of made that decision in college, and yeah, it's been going great ever since. Lucky me. But yeah, until COVID hit. I've been working since I got out of school and so has my husband. So.[00:15:21] Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah, that's awesome. That's absolutely fantastic. Well, are there any moments sort of along the way of your, your life, your journey, that really stand out as an encounter with art to kind of tuck away and remember?[00:15:39] Maggie Rader: Yeah, totally. You know, I-- and I know I said that I did a lot of children's theater, but I do also do a lot of teaching too-- and actually when I was on that children's tour, for the Kentucky Shakespeare, right out of grad school, I was out in Eastern Kentucky. So we were staying in Hazard, because it was the biggest town. And then we were going to all these rural schools in the mountains. So we were out there for an entire week, and working, and going to every single children or, elementary school in the county. And so I was in a classroom and I was doing a workshop where the kids each had to do, they had to be one of the witches in Scottish play. And we were just talking about what it means to be a witch, or it's like, "Okay, well, this play's been done for 400 years. So how can we put our own spin on it and make it our own Scottish play?" Because all Shakespeare really wants is that these witches are not human, so if we're producing our own Scottish play, what would we want our witches to look like and sound and move? And so I gave out the, you know, "When shall we three meet again?" scene, and broke the kids into groups of three.[00:16:47] And I just saw this one kid who was just shut down from the very, very, very beginning. And I went over to him and I said, "Hey, do you need some help?" And the teacher just talked to the entire classroom and she said, "Oh, he don't read." I kind of stopped. And I said, Hhe don't read well, or at all?" And she said, "Oh no, he don't read at all." It's like, okay. And so I pulled him aside and I said, "Hey, if I, if I read it to you, can you remember it?" And he's like, "Oh yeah!" And it just broke my heart that it felt like this kid had been given up on by his class and his teacher. And it's like, this kid is smart. He needs to read in a different way.[00:17:33] And he hasn't been helped. But if a kid can memorize an entire scene of Shakespeare, if I read it to him first, that kid's smart. And he did! I read it out loud and he remembered every line he had and it just--you know, and when I was growing up, the only arts experience we had in high school was Miss Oklahoma coming and talking to us about following your dreams or something. I don't know. And that was our arts exposure in high school. And I thought, "God, if we can find a way to connect to these rural kids, so that they know that the arts is an avenue, or even a way to channel what you're going through. You know, you don't have to do it as a career, but if it helps you learn, if it helps you learn how to read, what a way to not give up on those kids who learn differently."[00:18:27]Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah, absolutely. Wow, what a story! I, it's amazing to me. I mean, I would think very few adults would be able to hear a monologue or whatever one time and be able to quote it. I mean, that's incredible. Yeah. I mean, I don't think most of us could ever do that. Yeah. Ah, so I hope, yeah, that's, that's a really amazing moment. And I, I can only imagine that that definitely made an impression on him, and just realizing that there are alternate ways of learning or expressing or whatever, and that's a big deal.[00:19:09] Maggie Rader: I think, cause that was 12 years ago, you know, the kid is, it's an adult now. And I, I still think about him a lot. I hope he's doing well.[00:19:18] Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah, absolutely. Well, thank you for sharing that story. That's really impactful. So I'm curious, I know that like so many artists, lately you've sort of had to just, you know, switch gears a little bit, be a little more creative in your approach to continuing to do your art. And I, I know that you have something coming up. So do you mind sharing a little bit about, you know, maybe like what's happened, how you kind of transitioned during this time and sort of what's what's coming up for you?[00:19:50] Maggie Rader: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's, it's been tough. I was running a really wonderful play called "Alabaster" by a good friend and playwright named Audrey Cefaly. And I was running that in March and we ended up having to close the last week of the show. And it was tough, but luckily I've been able to dive more into my writing, which has been fabulous. And it's not really, I've been writing a lot faster during COVID because I'm not having to memorize lines and go do shows at night. So I've actually been able to, I finished a full length called "The Helpers," which follows the story of Miep Gies, who helped the Frank family high during World War II. And it was supposed to have a workshop at DePaul University last May, and because of COVID, it was all virtual, which meant I didn't have to go up to Chicago once a week, which was probably helpful.[00:20:39]But that play has been finished. And, the reading of, of it is online and able to view on my website. I've also written a play called "The Wonder," start to finish, which is a full length, since COVID hit. And it's about the true story, so they say, of the first documented spiritual possession in the United States, which took place in Watseka, Illinois. So I keep calling it an American Midwestern ghost story for mothers and daughters, and it's very sweet. But it it's about healing and connection. So I'm sure there's a reason why that's the story that kind of came to fruition during COVID. But it is a story about family and connection and deep, deep, deep healing. But it's lovely. It's just a little five hander that's about an hour and a half long and, we did a reading of it via Zoom, and that's also available on my website too. But then as an actor, it's been really great to see the theater companies, you know, trying to produce and create during this time and keeping their audience bases engaged.[00:21:43]So normally right now, my husband and I would both be in rehearsals for the Christmas show at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company called, "Every Christmas Story Ever Told," which is kind of a mashup of everyone's favorite holiday movies and books and things like that. It's very fun and silly. But since we can't do it this year instead, they got the four of us, the actors who would have done the show, together. And we did a lot of writing. So we kind of had a, you know, SNL style or writing session for a week. And then we recorded what we're calling "Drunk Santa's Holiday Spectacular." It's, it's very fun. It's silly. The four of us come over to Santa's apartment in the North Pole. And, you know, she's just not feeling up to delivering presents this year. And so we try to see what's on television to kind of get her spirits up and it's-- so I, we have, it's like we wrote our own Hallmark movie and a 92nd Hallmark movie, a sketch about the proud bucks that are trying to kidnap Rudolph because he's forcing them to wear masks.[00:22:58] And, what else? I wrote something else for it, and I can't even think of it.  What else did we even do? It, like I filmed it two weeks ago. And these days in COVID the days are, the days are long and the weeks are short. So the Great British Baking Show. That's what I wrote. Right. So as, as hosts are coming and going so fast that, oh, who's the Hell's Kitchen guy, Gordon Ramsey. Gordon Ramsey is one of the new hosts on the Great British Baking Show and it's delightful and fun and silly. And, so we're just trying to mash up topical things from 2020, but also fun holiday traditions. And it's going to be about an hour long and it premieres, I think, December 4th is when, and you can get a DVD of it. You can stream it and watch it online, whatever's easiest for you, but it's, it's gonna be a lot of fun and hopefully a lot of laughs.[00:24:00] Lindsey Dinneen: Oh, I love that. I just, as soon as you said the title, I was like, "Oh, I'm in. Definitely. Oh, how fun!"[00:24:08] Maggie Rader: It all started--the company used to do that show on a stage at a local bar called Arnold's, which is a lovely, it's the oldest, one of the two oldest operating bars in the United States. Like they still operated during prohibition, and so the show started on this itty bitty courtyard stage, and they needed kind of a stage manager. So they dressed up this wonderful Australian actress in town, and she was Drunk Santa, who was also pretending to be Drunk Santa, also pretty much being the stage manager and running sound cues and things like that. But now that the show is on our big stage and has-- I've been going now for 15 years--it's like, well, now Drunk Santa is just kind of a part of it. And since we were writing our own thing, it's finally time for it to be Drunk Santa show.[00:24:56] Lindsey Dinneen: Excellent. I can't wait to watch this. I'm very excited. Well, awesome. I have a couple of questions that I love to ask my guests, if you're okay with that. Awesome. Okay. So first of all, how do you personally define art or what is art to you?[00:25:15] Maggie Rader: Oh, what a good question. How do I define art or what is art to me? I think just expression. Yeah, expression. My mom is a wonderful visual artist and, I growing up, I wanted to be an artist because that's what my mom was. And when I realized I didn't have a lot of visual art skills, I was so sad that I was like, you can't be an artist. Like my mom and I, when I was wanting to do plays and things, I said, "Mom, does that still make you an artist?" She's like, "Well, yeah, of course it does." It's like, "Oh, thank God. I can still be an artist like my mom." And yeah, I think it's just expression, whatever it is to you. Because what is the opposite of art? Like stagnation? Yeah, I guess I just say expression.[00:25:59] Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah. Okay. I love it. Well. And what do you think is the most important role of an artist?[00:26:06] Maggie Rader: Oh, to connect, I'd say. You know, we were joking before we started rehearsing. It's like, "Oh, why does live theater still exist when movies are around?" And if you mess up, you can just start over and you only have to do it once then. But that's why live theater is still around. It's so much about connection. And I feel like out of all the, and maybe that's why I love the stage. It's, I feel like when you're doing live theater, you get to connect so much more than in other artistic mediums that I love, and enjoy, but it's not my particular passion. So yeah, I think the most important role is, or thing you can do, is to connect.[00:26:48] Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah, absolutely. Okay. And then my final question is, and I'll define my terms a little bit, but do you think that art should be inclusive or exclusive? And exclusive referring to somebody who puts their art out into the world and doesn't provide a whole lot of context behind it, so it's really up to the audience to kind of determine what they will. Versus inclusive referring to an artist who does share some context, whether that's a title or program notes or Q&A or anything like that.[00:27:22]Maggie Rader:  What a good question. I, I don't know if I think that they're both completely separate things, I guess. And what a great discussion to have, you know, it's, as we talk about artists' work and, you know, enjoying Michael Jackson's body of work, even though he may have been a child predator. And I, I say may have been because he was never found guilty and, or, you know, R Kelly, can you enjoy people's work while knowing possibly the background of what was happening in their lives when they created it? And it's just such a good conversation to always be having. And also as artists, what a responsibility we have, you know. It's, my husband and I were having a long talk about politicians. We had our third member of city council in Cincinnati that was arrested this week for bribery charges. And we just talked about how, what a responsibility it is when you do go into the life of, of politics. Was Bill Clinton's impact on our society lessened because of what he did in his personal life? That you go into some professions and you have a greater responsibility that's bigger than yourself.[00:28:45] And I feel like art is part of that. And because yes, I think, to use "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," as an example, Maggie the Cat was based on a woman called Maria St. Just who was half Russian, half English, and just this force of a woman. And, you know, she was engaged to this dude who was very rich, a Prince of something or other. And, she went out and bought him a tie for every day of the week. Two for Sundays. And he was so embarrassed that she'd done that, that she'd spent all this money for ties and he said, "Well, what are you going to do with my money when we get married?" She said, "Oh, do you have some? Well, then I'll probably spend it." And he left her and they never got married. And she was like, "Well, that was, that's not fair. I was just honest with him."[00:29:40] But there's this really great memoir of, like, I guess it's the letters that Tennessee Williams and Maria St. Just wrote back and forth when she was, you know, just starting out as an actor and, Tennessee Williams was a nobody writer and they met at a party and just had a wonderful friendship for the rest of his life until he died. And reading these letters back and forth, to me who was playing Maggie, it made that role so much deeper. And, you know, I've never seen Maggie as the villain of that story and even more so after I, I read the book, but if you wanted, it's fabulous, it's called "Five O'Clock Angel" and it's a wonderful book, but that play means so much more to me knowing whom Maria St. Just was. So, I guess I'd have to thank you for listening to me yammer on while I worked that out for myself.[00:30:33] Lindsey Dinneen: I love it.[00:30:34] Maggie Rader: Because at the risk of, of course, I guess it has to be inclusive because, I do have guilt when I enjoy Michael Jackson's art and that's for me-- you know, I, I will never judge someone else's line when it comes to that, I guess, but for me, I, his work is tainted now for me. R Kelly, like I can't watch "Space Jam" the same way, and that's probably a really small price to pay because you know, it's "Space Jam." But yeah, it's tainted for me, knowing the kinds of things that man has done, and which is why, you know, Tennessee Williams is one of my favorite playwrights because, I respect, you know, what he did for his sister and his mother. So when I read "Glass Menagerie," I can't divorce what he did for his, for his sister who was lobotimzed. When I read "Glass Menagerie," it brings so much more depth to that story for me. So, yeah, I guess inclusive. It should be inclusive decidedly. [00:31:37] Lindsey Dinneen: Very good. I actually really appreciate your working it out because it was-- I think that you bring actually a really good, unique perspective to this. And I, nobody has talked about it quite in those terms of how much the context matters to how you can personally enjoy it. And I really actually think that that's a really good point to make because that it does make a difference and, you know, to kind of dismiss that isn't particularly fair. [00:32:11] Maggie Rader: You know, be Banksy and keep her anonymity. And I guess that is valid as well, but also the anonymity of it is its own persona on it, of itself. So you still can't enforce it, can you?[00:32:24]Lindsey Dinneen: In, indeed[00:32:26] Maggie Rader: Oh, my brain just exploded.[00:32:29] Lindsey Dinneen: There we go. Well, you never know what a conversation about art will do. Awesome. Okay. Well, so first of all, thank you so much, Maggie, for joining us today. I really, really appreciate it. Love your stories. You've got some absolutely fantastic ones. Yeah. And I was just wondering if any of us want to kind of get in touch with you or follow your work, especially watch your upcoming film, is there a way that we can do that?[00:32:58] Maggie Rader: Absolutely. I try to keep my personal website up-to-date all the time. So if you go to, it's just my whole name, maggielourader.com. And my last name is spelled R A D E R, and on my home page, there is a link to Cincy Shakes' site where, 1) you can watch the trailer of the "Drunk Santa Holiday Spectacular," which is fun and delightful all on its own, and you can also purchase a DVD. You can purchase the streaming rights that'll be available on December 4th, but you can get your tickets now. And you can also go to my playwriting page. And if you want to see the Zoom readings of either "The Helpers" or "The Wonder," they're all up there. And you can absolutely contact me through my website or just sending an email, which is just my first and last name, Maggie Rader, R A D E R@live, L I V E.com. Or you can just do the Contact Me page on my website and it'll send me an email directly. So either one works.[00:34:01] Lindsey Dinneen: Perfect. Well, thank you. And I just want to say, you know, on behalf of myself and our listeners and all the people that you touch through your art, thank you for being a brave, bold person who stands up for when you know, the fox is in the fur or whatever, and you need to demonstrate that! But seriously, thank you so much for sharing your art with the world and for sharing it with kids that you teach and with adults that you have conversations with. I think that makes such a difference in people's lives. And, I just appreciate that that's what you've chosen to do with your life. So thank you.[00:34:47] Maggie Rader: Thank you. Thank you so much for this. This is, I hope it's been fun for all, cause this has been just delightful to sit and chat with you.[00:34:54] Lindsey Dinneen: Yes, it has been delightful and I'm, I'm sure our readers feel the, or listeners--here we go--feel the same. I mean, you can read the transcript so it could be readers too. Well, thank you so much again, Maggie, and thank you to all of you who have listened to this episode. And if you're feeling as inspired as I am right now, I would love if you would share this with a friend or two and we will catch you next time.[00:35:24] If you have a story to share with us, we would love that so much. And I hope your day has been Artfully Told.[00:35:33]Hey Artfully Told listeners, it's Lindsey here. I want to say, first of all, thank you so very much for your continued support of Artfully Told for listening to the episodes and for being a part of bringing art to the world. I really believe that what we're doing is important and matters, and I'm just excited to share art with you on a continual basis. I do want to reach out to you.  I do the whole podcasts myself, from the interviews themselves, to the editing, to the transcribing, and then of course posting and all that good stuff. And I absolutely love what I do, but it is both time-consuming and expensive to run a podcast. I have to have the proper equipment. And then of course the proper editing software and hosting platform. And in order to continue to be able to do this on a sustainable basis for the future, I'm asking our listeners, if you guys would consider supporting the podcast even very small monthly donation, like $5 a month would really go a long way towards me being able to continue to do this in the future. And so I have set up a PayPal account that you can access through the Artfully Told website, which is www.artfullytold.podbean.com. And I would love if you would consider just making a monthly reoccurring donation to support the podcast. We don't have corporate sponsors, so everything that you hear is me doing this from a labor of love. And I love it, but I would ask if you would perhaps consider supporting it too. Thank you so much. Have an amazing day and I'll catch you next time.

Who is Warner Munroe: Warner is a Virgo with a Scorpio rising. Warner has worn many hats and performed many things. And right now is simply “ I Am.” And this is where you find Warner's online Home --> Warnervo.com Favorite Career Highlight: Warner performed a play based on the last few years of Anne Frank. Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank and her family, attended a show and she spoke with her regarding her experiences. What is Covid 19: To find out more about the plague visit the CDC or WHO.

During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, the Dutch Resistance to Hitler was strong, with many Dutch citizens risking their lives to hide, transport, and secretly support those that his policies oppressed. In this episode, we continue or compassion series that showcases good people doing good things in times of crises. This week, we follow the life of Miep Gies, a woman who risked everything to hide and protect a group of her Jewish friends, including one young girl who would inspire millions throughout the world with the words she would write down while hidden away in a secret annex.

Arnold Gutierrez, who goes by the names Xan Frank and ArnoldIsDead, stunned rap fans with a huge inking of the Jewish writer 'the sun news papper' Oct 10, 2017 - Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (German: [anəˈliːs maˈʁiː ˈfʁaŋk], Dutch: [ɑnəˈlis maːˈri ˈfrɑŋk]; 12 June 1929 – February or March 1945)[3] was a German-born Dutch-Jewish diarist. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the #Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch; English: The Secret Annex), in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world's best known books and has been the basis for several plays and films. #AnneFrank Born in Frankfurt, Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, Netherlands, having moved there with her family at the age of four and a half when the Nazis gained control over Germany. Born a German national, she lost her citizenship in 1941 and thus became stateless. By May 1940, the Franks were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the Franks went into hiding in some concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Anne's father, Otto Frank, worked. From then until the family's arrest by the Gestapo in August 1944, she kept a diary she had received as a birthday present, and wrote in it regularly. Following their arrest, the Franks were transported to concentration camps. In October or November 1944, Anne and her sister, Margot, were transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen #concentrationcamp, where they died (probably of typhus) a few months later. They were originally estimated by the Red Cross to have died in March, with Dutch authorities setting 31 March as their official date of death, but research by the Anne Frank House in 2015 suggests it is more likely that they died in February.[3] Otto, the only survivor of the Franks, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that her diary had been saved by his secretary, Miep Gies, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch version and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl, and has since been translated into over 70 languages. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vegansteven/message

On this episode, Erin speaks with actress Pat Carroll about her role as Miep Gies in the 2007 feature film, Freedom Writers. Pat discusses what it was like to portray such a renowned character, gives insight into her job as an actor, and explores her infamous role as Ursula in The Little Mermaid. Following Erin’s conversation with Pat Carroll, original Freedom Writer, Narada Comans, reflects on the significance of Miep Gies visiting the Freedom Writers at Wilson High School, and how the Freedom Writers now give students their own “Miep Moments” when they visit classrooms around the world. Show Notes: Freedom Writers feature film on Amazon: https://amzn.to/32iB8JJ The Little Mermaid on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2PjSdgU Invite a Freedom Writer to your organization: http://www.freedomwritersfoundation.org/index.php/request-speaker Support the production of the Freedom Writers Podcast by donating here: http://www.freedomwritersfoundation.org/index.php/donate

Show Notes: In this episode, Will and John discuss the story of Joseph, how to handle the fact that there is evil in the world, and more. If you want to skip the retelling of the Joseph story, go to 21:53 and start listening. Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies and Alison Leslie Gold The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom Candide by Voltaire Who Moved My Cheese? 7 Men by Eric Metaxas 7 Women by Eric Metaxas Passion City Church Q&A Part 1 Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning

This episode features Jan Erik Dubbelman, a beloved Freedom Writer Teacher and the Director of Education and International Outreach at The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. From his unique perspective as a preserver of history, Jan Erik offers insight into Anne Frank's story and legacy, including Otto Frank's preparation to take his family into hiding and a detailed description of what life was like in the Secret Annex during the War. He also chronicles the heroic efforts of Miep Gies, the simple secretary who risked her life to support the Franks for the two years they were in hiding. You'll also hear from another remarkable Freedom Writer Teacher, Lisa Liss, whose valiant 11-year campaign collected 1.5 million bandages from teachers and students all over the world to honor the number of children killed in the Holocaust. We hope their inspiring stories empower you to spread hope, compassion, and acceptance within your classrooms and communities. Show Notes Support the production of the Freedom Writers Podcast by donating here: http://www.freedomwritersfoundation.org/index.php/donate Anne Frank House: www.annefrank.org/en Tour the Secret Annex: https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/secret-annex/ Information on Museum Visits: https://www.annefrank.org/en/museum/ Lisa Liss and the Bandage Project: https://tinyurl.com/y3swnop2 Inspired by the Paperclip Project: http://www.oneclipatatime.org/paper-clips-project/ For general inquiries about Freedom Writer Teachers, email us at: fwi@freedomwritersfoundation.org To apply for the Freedom Writer Teacher Institute: http://www.freedomwritersfoundation.org/images/pdf/fwi-application.pdf

In this week's episode of Armchair Apocrypha, Andrew talks about one of the FBI's most wanted from the 1970's, while Rachael recounts the story of Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank and others.

Who is Warner Munroe: Warner is a Virgo with a Scorpio rising. Warner has worn many hats and performed many things. And right now is simply “ I Am.”And this is where you find Warner's online Home --> Warnervo.com Favorite Career Highlight: Warner performed a play based on the last few years of Anne Frank. Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank and her family, attended a show and she spoke with her regarding her experiences. What Warner learned about Eckhart: Life is the dancer, you are the dance. You don’t live life, life lives you.   Who is Eckhart Tolle: Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher, best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose. He partners with Oprah quite a bit to share his philosophies around the universe.   Special Episode moments: I loved listening to Eckhart talk about his breakfast and singing a song with him. I was truly inspired by his kindness and presence.   How to show love to Project Woo Woo: Click here to buy Lisa a cup of joe.   This episode was also supported by Amazon. Click on this link --> Amazon any time you need to make an Amazon purchase. A small percentage of your purchase will support the show (no extra cost to you).  I receive an affiliate commission from some of the links above. Go get your free be happier than all your friends morning routine over here --> Project Woo Woo Listen to Lisa's other podcasts at Love Bites & Honestly Lisa

Just decide. Act. Go. Do something. Don’t be stagnant. Miep Gies said “Any attempt at action is better than inaction. An attempt can go wrong, but inaction inevitably results in failure.” Your decision may not be the best, but being indecisive is the worst. Indecision gets you no where. Indecision kills your productivity, your confidence, and can even negatively affect your relationships or business. The longer you wait, the harder it becomes to make a decision. Use your lizard-brain, decide and act quickly. Get out of your own way so you can get shit done!   Questions, comments, requests? Feel free to contact me at ryan@gsdmediagroup.com. I’d love to hear from you.

Just decide. Act. Go. Do something. Don’t be stagnant. Miep Gies said “Any attempt at action is better than inaction. An attempt can go wrong, but inaction inevitably results in failure.” Your decision may not be the best, but being indecisive is the worst. Indecision gets you no where. Indecision kills your productivity, your confidence, and can even negatively affect your relationships or business. The longer you wait, the harder it becomes to make a decision. Use your lizard-brain, decide and act quickly. Get out of your own way so you can get shit done!   Questions, comments, requests? Feel free to contact me at ryan@gsdmediagroup.com. I’d love to hear from you.

Father John Neiman is a Catholic Priest and has been a Holocaust educator for over thirty years. He was transformed by the Diary of Anne Frank, a book which he has read several times throughout his life. He later developed a close relationship with Otto Frank, Anne’s father, Otto’s second wife, Fritzy, and Miep Gies, who helped hide the Frank family. • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank • Everyday Leadership TED Talk by Drew Dudley: https://www.ted.com/talks/drew_dudley_everyday_leadership • Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies Find more episodes on our SoundCloud page: @schoolofthoughtpodcast-275578674 Subscribe to our Podcast on the iTunes Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/school-of-thought-podcast/id1325922902?mt=2 Subscribe to our Newsletter at: www.schoolofthoughtproductions.com/contact/ We would love to connect with you! Please email us at schoolofthoughtpodcast@gmail.com to tell us who you are, what you think about the show, and who we should talk to next. Connect with us and the rest of our tribe by searching for School of Thought Podcast on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Father John Neiman is a Catholic Priest and has been a Holocaust educator for over thirty years. He was transformed by the Diary of Anne Frank, a book which he has read several times throughout his life. He later developed a close relationship with Otto Frank, Anne’s father, Otto’s second wife, Fritzy, and Miep Gies, who helped hide the Frank family. • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank • Everyday Leadership TED Talk by Drew Dudley: https://www.ted.com/talks/drew_dudley_everyday_leadership • Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies Find more episodes on our SoundCloud page: @schoolofthoughtpodcast-275578674 Subscribe to our Podcast on the iTunes Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/school-of-thought-podcast/id1325922902?mt=2 Subscribe to our Newsletter at: www.schoolofthoughtproductions.com/contact/ We would love to connect with you! Please email us at schoolofthoughtpodcast@gmail.com to tell us who you are, what you think about the show, and who we should talk to next. Connect with us and the rest of our tribe by searching for School of Thought Podcast on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

  This is a podcast I produced for Notting Hill Editions with Alison Leslie Gold, who is perhaps best known for her book Anne Frank Remembered, which she wrote with Miep Gies, one of the people who protected the Frank family during the war. Before her collaboration on that book, Alison had experienced a lost decade, in which she descended into alcohol addiction. Writing the Anne Frank book represented a return to life, a rediscovery of interest in other people and their stories. Other stories were to follow. She became, as she puts it, ‘a miner, a midwife, a salvager of other people’s stories’. But, as she writes in the Prologue to her new book, Found and Lost: She goes on: When I met Alison in London last autumn she began by telling me more about the book’s origins: Alison Leslie Gold The book started as a kind of treatise on close friends dying. It’s in five parts and it’s about six deaths; the first part was initially published by a small press connected to …

This episode features two stories born in World War 2. A Japanese man who was only 5 in 1945, but survived the Atomic Bomb blast in Hiroshima that led to the end of the war in the Pacific. He visited the U.S. recently to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants. Also, an excerpt from a mid-1990's talk by the late Miep Gies (meep-geese), who helped hide Anne Frank's family from the Nazi's in World War 2. Ms. Gies was the one who found Anne Frank's now-famous diary. And a chat with foreign aid proponent Jamie Drummond. All on the next edition of Peace Talks Radio.

This episode features two stories born in World War 2. A Japanese man who was only 5 in 1945, but survived the Atomic Bomb blast in Hiroshima that led to the end of the war in the Pacific. He visited the U.S. recently to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants. Also, an excerpt from a mid-1990's talk by the late Miep Gies (meep-geese), who helped hide Anne Frank's family from the Nazi's in World War 2. Ms. Gies was the one who found Anne Frank's now-famous diary. And a chat with foreign aid proponent Jamie Drummond. All on the next edition of Peace Talks Radio.