Part of The Wiener Library's Fate Unknown exhibition series, this event will include a talk by Professor Dan Stone, co-curator of the exhibition, and a dramatic reading of excerpts of the Burgess radio play.
In 1950, Alan Burgess's BBC radio play, The Greatest Detective Story in History, gave unprecedented and moving insight into the work of the International Tracing Service (ITS), particularly with regard to its efforts to find missing children after the Second World War. The play also captures the ways in which the Nazi period was understood in Britain in the post-war years.

Real to Reel, the UK’s first film festival devoted to making, returns to Picturehouse Central, Piccadilly, London, this spring and promises to be one of the highlights of London Craft Week. The event, produced by Crafts magazine and the Crafts Council, runs over three evenings from 8-10 May.

This lecture discusses how writers such as Arendt, Orwell, Simone Weil, Dorothy Thompson, and Samuel Beckett responded to the mass displacements of the last century, and anticipate many of the issues we confront today. Sceptical about the ability of human rights to legislate for refugees, yet committed to universal justice, these writers challenge us to imagine new terms for placelessness in modern times.

Dare to join us on Wednesday 23 May and explore Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, an epic thriller brought to life through immersive performances, talks, workshops and activities. Listen to chilling ghost stories by candlelight as you tread carefully through Victor Frankenstein’s lab, learn about the scientific and medical innovations of the period, and play with a historical vampire slaying kit from the 19th-century.