蜜芽传媒

Writing the Century is an ongoing series of dramas reflecting on the 20th Century through diaries and letters.

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

Dame Laura meets Major Peter Casson, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General of the British War Crimes Executive, who is charged with smoothing her path through bureaucracy. He helps her to settle into her suite in the Grand Hotel - originally built for Hitler - to deal with the international social whirl that attends the trials and to cope with coming face-to-face with Hitler's henchmen for the first time in court.

Amanda Whittington's dramatisation is based on the diaries of Dame Laura Knight, whose painting 'The Dock' has become a classic image of the Nazi War Crime Trials. Omnibus of five episodes.

CAST:

Dame Laura Knight .... Diana Quick
Major Peter Casson .... Gunnar Cauthery
Penny Ayres/Sarah .... Kate Sobey
William Dean/Hans .... Patrick Keeler
French Prosecutor .... Mark Meadows
Guy .... Martin Bonger
Ella/Elizabeth Endes .... Cristina Catalina

Director: Mary Ward-Lowery

First broadcast on 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 in January 2014.