Dr Korczak's Example

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1942, Warsaw: can the writer and paediatrician Dr Korcak protect his Jewish orphanage?

1942, Warsaw: can the writer and paediatrician Dr Korcak protect his Jewish orphanage from the Nazis? Stars Alexander Morton.

When the Nazis close in on Warsaw, Dr Korczak and his children are forced to move into the ghetto stretching his pacifist ideals to the limit. 

But the Doctor's values are threatened not only by Nazi regime, but by the arrival of a young Jewish boy who believes in fighting back.

Starring Alexander Morton.

Based on the true story of Janusz Korczak, best-selling children's novelist, paediatrician and social experimenter, who set up a Jewish Orphanage in Warsaw and ran it as a children's democracy. 

Written by David Greig.

Dr Korczak    ......    Alexander Morton
Stephanie    ......    Vicki Liddelle
Adzio    ......    Simon Donaldson
Cerniakow    ......    Sandy Neilson
Stepan    ......    Anthony Hutcheson
Priest    ......    Matthew Zajac
Abraza    ......    Ewan MacLeod
Tadeusz    ......    Fergus Hitchcock 
Bruno    ......    Finn Hitchcox 
Miriam/Zelda    ......    Katie Neville  
Coco    ......    Sarah-Beth Neville

Violinist: Daphne Godson  

Director: Lu Kemp

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004.

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