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Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer
1939 and 2026: The Furies of War
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer
Episode 10 of 10The story of the residents of Weimar during the rise and reign of Hitler.
Weimar – On the Edge of Catastrophe is written by Katja Hoyer.
The reader is Sian Thomas.
The abridger is Julian Wilkinson.
The producer is Lu Kemp.Hiking in the Ettersberg Carl Weirich is conscious of how the concentration camp has ruined the beautiful natural landscape of his local area. Meanwhile the net is drawing in around Rosa, as more and more demands are made to authenticate her heritage.
In the early 2020s historian Katja Hoyer visits Weimar to research the story of the people who lived there, and meets those who remember them.
Weimar explores ‘the question of how and why a nation that prided itself on its culture and civility enabled the catastrophe of Nazism haunts us to this day because we fear a repeat.’ The book is about the tension between individual and collective responsibility and sounds a warning for our own times.
Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian, journalist and the author of the international bestseller Beyond the Wall as well as Blood and Iron. A visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she writes for Bloomberg and Berliner Zeitung and is a commentator on German current affairs for many British newspapers. She was born in Germany and is now based in the UK.
2026-05-23 0030-0045 (last episode)
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Arts & Mysteries
A History of Mystery by Cal Flyn
Episode 2 of 5Cal Flyn explores the profound power of mystery and the provocation of the unknown.
Today the award-winning writer uncovers the links between the unknown and the medieval guilds that developed to protect artisanal secrets.
Written and read by Cal Flyn
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie
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(a bit of pro-FreeMason propaganda just before noon -- guilds, mystery plays, freemasons)
Arts & Mysteries
A History of Mystery by Cal Flyn
Episode 2 of 5Cal Flyn explores the profound power of mystery and the provocation of the unknown.
Today the award-winning writer uncovers the links between the unknown and the medieval guilds that developed to protect artisanal secrets.
Written and read by Cal Flyn
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie
A BBC Audio Scotland production for BBC Radio 4Show less
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#BBCRadio4 #BookOfTheWeek #BBCBookOfTheWeek #BBCRadio4BookOfTheWeek
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(a bit of pro-FreeMason propaganda just before noon -- guilds, mystery plays, freemasons)
Arts & Mysteries
A History of Mystery by Cal Flyn
Episode 2 of 5Cal Flyn explores the profound power of mystery and the provocation of the unknown.
Today the award-winning writer uncovers the links between the unknown and the medieval guilds that developed to protect artisanal secrets.
Written and read by Cal Flyn
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie
A BBC Audio Scotland production for BBC Radio 4Show less
30 days left to listen14 minutes
Today
11:45
BBC Radio 4(... she wants to be a brother ...)
#BBCRadio4 #BookOfTheWeek #BBCBookOfTheWeek #BBCRadio4BookOfTheWeek
#BBCR4BookOfTheWeek
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(a bit of pro-FreeMason propaganda just before noon -- guilds, mystery plays, freemasons)
Arts & Mysteries
A History of Mystery by Cal Flyn
Episode 2 of 5Cal Flyn explores the profound power of mystery and the provocation of the unknown.
Today the award-winning writer uncovers the links between the unknown and the medieval guilds that developed to protect artisanal secrets.
Written and read by Cal Flyn
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie
A BBC Audio Scotland production for BBC Radio 4Show less
30 days left to listen14 minutes
Today
11:45
BBC Radio 4(... she wants to be a brother ...)
#BBCRadio4 #BookOfTheWeek #BBCBookOfTheWeek #BBCRadio4BookOfTheWeek
#BBCR4BookOfTheWeek
#R4BookOfTheWeek
#Freemasons #Freemasonry #CalFlyn #BBCCalFlyn #FreemasonBrotherCalFlyn -
(a bit of pro-FreeMason propaganda just before noon -- guilds, mystery plays, freemasons)
Arts & Mysteries
A History of Mystery by Cal Flyn
Episode 2 of 5Cal Flyn explores the profound power of mystery and the provocation of the unknown.
Today the award-winning writer uncovers the links between the unknown and the medieval guilds that developed to protect artisanal secrets.
Written and read by Cal Flyn
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie
A BBC Audio Scotland production for BBC Radio 4Show less
30 days left to listen14 minutes
Today
11:45
BBC Radio 4(... she wants to be a brother ...)
#BBCRadio4 #BookOfTheWeek #BBCBookOfTheWeek #BBCRadio4BookOfTheWeek
#BBCR4BookOfTheWeek
#R4BookOfTheWeek
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#Nietzsche #Pain #PainManagment
2026-03-03 1145-1200
Episode 2: Brain
This Is the Door: Notes from a Body in Pain by Darcey Steinke
Episode 2 of 5Darcey Steinke’s engrossing new book explores the subject of pain – what science tells us and what artists and thinkers have made of it. For Steinke, it all started when she damaged her back. As the process of healing began, she began to look outwards, to explore what it is like for others to live with chronic pain. With a new understanding, she reflects on the lives of writers and artists who have found meaning in the experience of pain.
In this second episode, she investigates the pain of migraine. One in ten people suffer from migraines - they may be more common now because of the pressures of modern life, but they are in no way a new ailment. Steinke explores remedies from the ancient Egyptians onwards, some of them bizarre and hilarious, and reflects on the experience of the philosopher Nietzsche, who was plagued by migraines all his life.
‘Nietzsche believed that in facing pain directly we find meaning, even transformation. He wrote, “I love those who do not know how to live except by going under; for they are those who cross over.”’
The reader is award-winning actor Elizabeth McGovern, who played the Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey
Adapted and produced by Elizabeth Burke
Executive producer: Sara Davies
Sound design: Jon Calver
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4Show less
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#Nietzsche #Pain #PainManagment
2026-03-03 1145-1200
Episode 2: Brain
This Is the Door: Notes from a Body in Pain by Darcey Steinke
Episode 2 of 5Darcey Steinke’s engrossing new book explores the subject of pain – what science tells us and what artists and thinkers have made of it. For Steinke, it all started when she damaged her back. As the process of healing began, she began to look outwards, to explore what it is like for others to live with chronic pain. With a new understanding, she reflects on the lives of writers and artists who have found meaning in the experience of pain.
In this second episode, she investigates the pain of migraine. One in ten people suffer from migraines - they may be more common now because of the pressures of modern life, but they are in no way a new ailment. Steinke explores remedies from the ancient Egyptians onwards, some of them bizarre and hilarious, and reflects on the experience of the philosopher Nietzsche, who was plagued by migraines all his life.
‘Nietzsche believed that in facing pain directly we find meaning, even transformation. He wrote, “I love those who do not know how to live except by going under; for they are those who cross over.”’
The reader is award-winning actor Elizabeth McGovern, who played the Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey
Adapted and produced by Elizabeth Burke
Executive producer: Sara Davies
Sound design: Jon Calver
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4Show less
27 days left to listen14 minutes
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#Nietzsche #Pain #PainManagment
2026-03-03 1145-1200
Episode 2: Brain
This Is the Door: Notes from a Body in Pain by Darcey Steinke
Episode 2 of 5Darcey Steinke’s engrossing new book explores the subject of pain – what science tells us and what artists and thinkers have made of it. For Steinke, it all started when she damaged her back. As the process of healing began, she began to look outwards, to explore what it is like for others to live with chronic pain. With a new understanding, she reflects on the lives of writers and artists who have found meaning in the experience of pain.
In this second episode, she investigates the pain of migraine. One in ten people suffer from migraines - they may be more common now because of the pressures of modern life, but they are in no way a new ailment. Steinke explores remedies from the ancient Egyptians onwards, some of them bizarre and hilarious, and reflects on the experience of the philosopher Nietzsche, who was plagued by migraines all his life.
‘Nietzsche believed that in facing pain directly we find meaning, even transformation. He wrote, “I love those who do not know how to live except by going under; for they are those who cross over.”’
The reader is award-winning actor Elizabeth McGovern, who played the Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey
Adapted and produced by Elizabeth Burke
Executive producer: Sara Davies
Sound design: Jon Calver
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4Show less
27 days left to listen14 minutes
-
#Nietzsche #Pain #PainManagment
2026-03-03 1145-1200
Episode 2: Brain
This Is the Door: Notes from a Body in Pain by Darcey Steinke
Episode 2 of 5Darcey Steinke’s engrossing new book explores the subject of pain – what science tells us and what artists and thinkers have made of it. For Steinke, it all started when she damaged her back. As the process of healing began, she began to look outwards, to explore what it is like for others to live with chronic pain. With a new understanding, she reflects on the lives of writers and artists who have found meaning in the experience of pain.
In this second episode, she investigates the pain of migraine. One in ten people suffer from migraines - they may be more common now because of the pressures of modern life, but they are in no way a new ailment. Steinke explores remedies from the ancient Egyptians onwards, some of them bizarre and hilarious, and reflects on the experience of the philosopher Nietzsche, who was plagued by migraines all his life.
‘Nietzsche believed that in facing pain directly we find meaning, even transformation. He wrote, “I love those who do not know how to live except by going under; for they are those who cross over.”’
The reader is award-winning actor Elizabeth McGovern, who played the Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey
Adapted and produced by Elizabeth Burke
Executive producer: Sara Davies
Sound design: Jon Calver
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4Show less
27 days left to listen14 minutes
-
#Nietzsche #Pain #PainManagment
2026-03-03 1145-1200
Episode 2: Brain
This Is the Door: Notes from a Body in Pain by Darcey Steinke
Episode 2 of 5Darcey Steinke’s engrossing new book explores the subject of pain – what science tells us and what artists and thinkers have made of it. For Steinke, it all started when she damaged her back. As the process of healing began, she began to look outwards, to explore what it is like for others to live with chronic pain. With a new understanding, she reflects on the lives of writers and artists who have found meaning in the experience of pain.
In this second episode, she investigates the pain of migraine. One in ten people suffer from migraines - they may be more common now because of the pressures of modern life, but they are in no way a new ailment. Steinke explores remedies from the ancient Egyptians onwards, some of them bizarre and hilarious, and reflects on the experience of the philosopher Nietzsche, who was plagued by migraines all his life.
‘Nietzsche believed that in facing pain directly we find meaning, even transformation. He wrote, “I love those who do not know how to live except by going under; for they are those who cross over.”’
The reader is award-winning actor Elizabeth McGovern, who played the Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey
Adapted and produced by Elizabeth Burke
Executive producer: Sara Davies
Sound design: Jon Calver
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4Show less
27 days left to listen14 minutes