No Place to Lay One's Head (Omnibus)

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No Place to Lay One's Head

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A real life account of a flight from Berlin by a Jewish bookseller in the late 1930s.

Francoise Frenkel was a successful Jewish bookseller in Berlin, but 1935 heralded a dark dawn. Read by Samantha Spiro.

Francoise Frenkel's real-life account of flight from Berlin on the 'Night of Broken Glass'. 

The author had a thriving bookshop in Berlin, selling French editions, newspapers and magazines. 

Society types and celebrities would drop by to browse, buy and socialise. 

Then 1935 heralded a dark dawn..

Translated by Stephanie Smee.

Omnibus of five parts abridged by Katrin Williams.

Read by Samantha Spiro.

Producer: Duncan Minshull

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018

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