Lessons from History. A film examining
Dame Rebecca West 's treatise on the Balkan people which was written oh the eve of the Second World War. The document was largely ignored when first published but was rediscovered and used as a bible for a new generation of foreign correspondents during the Bosnian war. Reporter Janine Di Giovanni uses West's book to try and determine how and why chaos descended on a once peaceful nation. See Choice
Series producer Farah Durrani ; Editor Fiona Murch (S) (W)