The Secret Listeners : interviews with refugee radio operators and other wartime refugees

Interviews with "secret listeners" and other wartime refugees and their relatives. "The Secret Listeners" was the name given to German and Austrian refugees, many of them Jewish, who had fled Nazi Germany before the Second World War and were then recruited by British intelligence to spy on Nazi prisoners held at Prisoner of War camps. Pascal Theatre Company received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2012 to undertake a project entitled "The Secret Listeners"; the main project output was a site specific play performed at one of these camps, Trent Park in North London. As part of the outreach work of the project, Pascal Theatre Company recorded interviews with "secret listeners" and other wartime refugees and their relatives. Copies of the audio and transcripts are also be deposited with the British Library and the Jewish Military Museum. Pascal Theatre Company also keeps copies of the audio interviews and transcripts. - With summaries and transcripts. - For the play see copy no. 102903, shelfmark 'K4b(1)Play Sec'