About this episode

Robin Lustig shares his family's survival story during a significant historical event and discusses the impact of journalism on emotional responses to history.

In "And the Cello Came Too" former BBC news presenter Robin Lustig tells the story of his family and how fate determined who survived and who didn't the worst event of the twentieth century. But this conversation goes deeper, than just a family story of survival, we talk about how journalism inoculates those who practice it against the emotions we feel when observing and thinking about what history -- or fate -- can throw at us

People in this episode

Host: Michael Goldfarb

Guest: Robin Lustig

Topics covered

• family history
• survival
• journalism
• fate
• emotions
• twentieth century events

Keywords

• Robin Lustig
• family story
• survival
• journalism
• history
• fate
• twentieth century

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BBC

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