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WHILE the Nuremberg judges considered their verdicts, the accused were allowed visitors for the first time since the trials began. These Nazi leaders’ crimes sent shockwaves around the world, and the ‘only obeying orders’ defence had collapsed under the grim weight of evidence of film footage from the death camps. In the final episode of Jonathan Myerson’s drama NUREMBERG (RADIO 4, 2.15PM), we’re given a glimpse of the visitors’ room through the eyes of American translator Emma Schwabenland (Natalie Dormer, pictured) as the accused await the verdicts.

TOURISTS visit the plantations of America’s southern states, where they are shown the great mansions and the slave cabins, and are often told ghost stories. These stories give a sanitised version of

life on the plantations, with slaves being described as ‘servants’ — and rape by the master of the house being described as ‘an affair’. For today’s instalment of