It’s not often I shout at a caller or stun them into silence, but that is what happened tonight on LBC. I was conducting a phone-in about the 94 year old Auschwitz guard who was sentenced to four years in prison today in a court in the German town of Lueneburg. I started off by interviewing holocaust survivor Ivor Perl, whose parents and sisters were murdered iN Auschwitz. Ivor and his brother managed to survive. He testified in the court hearing. Here is my interview with him, which set the scene for what followed.
Towards the end of the hour I took a call from Tom in Chelsea who reckoned the jailing of Oskar Groenig was unjustified. He then went on to suggest that jews should just get over the holocaust. I saw red…
I don’t lose my rag very often. I think radio presenters who do that more or less every day do it as an act and just do it to provoke. If I do it people sit up and take notice because it’s very unlike me. I’m usually quite calm, even when discussing quite controversial subjects.
Anyway, I’d be interested in whether I should have remained calm here too!
