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The Dock, Nuremberg

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Diana Quick

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Kate Sobey

Martin Bonger

Cristina Catalina

Mary Ward-Lowery

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Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg

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Laura is delighted to find her old circus friends the Carollis are living in Nuremberg.

Dame Laura is delighted to find her old circus friends, the Carollis, are living in Nuremberg. Starring Diana Quick.

In January 1946, aged 68, renowned artist Dame Laura Knight takes a life-changing commission as war artist to the Nuremberg Trials.

Dame Laura takes Peter on a visit to her old circus friends, the Carollis, who are also living, by coincidence, in Nuremberg.

Meanwhile there is a hitch with the press box at court and Laura's eminence as a painter cuts no ice with the American colonel.

Flamenco music by The Thumping Tommys.

Written by Amanda Whittington - based on the diaries of Dame Laura Knight, whose painting 'The Dock' has become a classic image of the Nazi War Crime Trials.

Dame Laura Knight ...... Diana Quick
Peter Casson ...... Gunnar Cauthery
Penny Ayres ...... Kate Sobey
William Dean ...... Patrick Keeler
French Prosecutor ...... Mark Meadows

Director: Mary Ward-Lowery

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014.

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