We asked the head of podcasts to choose his favourite Weekend Intelligence from 2025 to play during the Christmas period. He chose our host Rosie Blau’s episode, The Last Boat, about the story her father never told.
Rosie grew up knowing that her father escaped the Nazi regime on the last boat from Poland to Britain before war broke out in 1939. But she knew little of what he left behind and why he would not talk about it. In the episode she traces her father’s journey from Berlin to a forest clearing in southern Poland. On the way, she finds out that some histories resist telling – and how silence itself becomes an inheritance passed from generation to generation.
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