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Goodnight, Vienna: The Last Train, by Jo Baker

The Last Train, by Jo Baker

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Will Leah catch the last kindertransport out of Vienna?

Vienna 1939. Leah is hurried through the city's streets by her mother to try and catch the last kindertransport. Read by Bryony Hannah.

A multi-contributor series of specially-commissioned radio stories about this most beguiling of cities. To the outsider, Vienna can be a state of mind as much as an actual place.

Episode 1 (of 3): The Last Train by Jo Baker
Vienna 1939. Leah is hurried through the streets by her mother to try and catch the last Kindertransport (the means by which thousands of children were evacuated from mainland Europe) out of the city.

Jo Baker was educated at Oxford and Queen's University, Belfast. She is the author of several novels, most recently 'Longbourn' in 2013. Jo lives in Lancaster.


Reader: Bryony Hannah

Produced by Jeremy Osborne
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