Speaker 1: We are approaching the end of March, my friend, We've
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Speaker 1: live the kind of day where you have to step outside,
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Speaker 1: really all we need. Today's episode of love, someone is
Speaker 1: going to be full of hope and the story of
Speaker 1: a man that held onto it despite the most desperate
Speaker 1: of circumstances. Nicki Winton was a young London stockbroker who
Speaker 1: visited Prague in December of nineteen thirty eight. There he
Speaker 1: discovers a large population of refugees who have fled the Nazis.
Speaker 1: During his brief visit to Prague, he was moved by
Speaker 1: the side of families living in unsanitary conditions, unsheltered and
Speaker 1: ill prepared for the harsh winter conditions, and he knew
Speaker 1: he must do something. He must do something, at least
Speaker 1: for the children. Nicky went and manages to convince those
Speaker 1: involved with the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia to
Speaker 1: help him get as many children as possible to safety
Speaker 1: before the inevitable Nazi occupation closes the borders. He set
Speaker 1: to the task of compiling a list of children needing
Speaker 1: to be rescued and returning to Britain, worked to fulfill
Speaker 1: them the legal requirements of passports, visas foster families, eventually
Speaker 1: helping to facilitate the evacuation of an amazing six hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty nine children to British soil. Fifty years later,
Speaker 1: married and his own children raised, Nicky Winton is haunted
Speaker 1: by the fate of the children they weren't able to
Speaker 1: bring to safety. It's not until the BBC TV show
Speaker 1: That's Life reintroduces him to some of those he helped
Speaker 1: rescue that he begins to come to terms with the
Speaker 1: guilt and grief he carried, and he became a national hero.
Speaker 1: Based on the book If It's Not Impossible The Life
Speaker 1: of Sir Nicholas Winton, written by his daughter Barbara Winton.
Speaker 1: The new movie One Life, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, tells
Speaker 1: this incredible, emotional true story of Nicholas Nicky Winton and
Speaker 1: those who would later call themselves Nicky's children. Today we
Speaker 1: have the great honor of welcoming Sir Nicholas Wynton's son,
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Delilah.
Speaker 1: I watched the movie that you participated in and that
Speaker 1: was based on your father last night. I had seen
Speaker 1: the clip of the actual TV show on social media
Speaker 1: several years ago. Somebody had posted it, and I watched
Speaker 1: it two or three times, and then I did a
Speaker 1: little research myself and I found maybe two inches of information,
Speaker 1: you know, on the internet about your father. I'm going
Speaker 1: to get emotional here just thinking about it. And I
Speaker 1: thought at the time when I saw that clip, and
Speaker 1: I saw it showed him and the audience, and then
Speaker 1: the moderator said, anybody whose life was saved, stand up.
Speaker 1: And in the actual TV show clip, he didn't see
Speaker 1: the people behind him. He saw the person to his
Speaker 1: side and to his left and to his right. But
Speaker 1: they the producers of that show, and what year was
Speaker 1: at eighty eight, seven.
Speaker 3: Eighty eight, they said, would you like to look behind you?
Speaker 1: And she said it so sweetly on the little clip
Speaker 1: that was on going around social media that he looked
Speaker 1: like he was going to collapse under the weight of
Speaker 1: those lives.
Speaker 3: It's an amazing piece of television, and the presenter Esther
Speaker 3: Ranson says, it's one of the greatest pieces of TV
Speaker 3: she's ever made. And my father took ten twenty years
Speaker 3: to forgive her because he was invited to the studio
Speaker 3: under false pretenses, supposedly giving advice on the accuracy of
Speaker 3: the segment that they were going to produce, and he
Speaker 3: was sat down in the middle of the front row
Speaker 3: and ambushed.
Speaker 1: And ambushed with love.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was very moving and he was brought up
Speaker 3: in a generation where you don't show emotion, you know,
Speaker 3: it's all very poker faced and stiff upper lip. And
Speaker 3: the fact that he even had a tear is for
Speaker 3: him almost equivalent to a breakdown. It's extraordinary. And every
Speaker 3: time I watch it, I've seen it quite a few times,
Speaker 3: I find it very tearful, very tip because of what
Speaker 3: it represents, you know, so many lives, so many lives.
Speaker 1: I started crying five minutes into the movie because I
Speaker 1: had seen that clip and I had done a little
Speaker 1: research myself. And then at the end of it, my
Speaker 1: sister was watching it simultaneously in her house. We must
Speaker 1: have started it like at the same time without knowing that.
Speaker 1: And she wrote to me and she said, I'm sobbing,
Speaker 1: And I couldn't even respond for a few minutes because
Speaker 1: I wasn't sobbing. I was ugly crying. I was just
Speaker 1: like And I slept so soundly after I had that
Speaker 1: good cry. But what was it like being the son
Speaker 1: of and I'm guessing the movie portrayed your father accurately,
Speaker 1: and that he never considered himself a saint, he never
Speaker 1: considered himself a hero.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that the film is accurate in all
Speaker 3: the important ways. There are very few artistic licenses that
Speaker 3: the filmmakers have taken. And yes, as he says, without
Speaker 3: wanting to spoil anybody's pleasure who's yet to see the film,
Speaker 3: he was just an ordinary guy and he considered it
Speaker 3: part of his moral duty to be involved in the
Speaker 3: community and help and it might be worth remembering. This
Speaker 3: film is based on my sister's book, which is a
Speaker 3: biography of his whole life. He lived for one till
Speaker 3: one hundred and six.
Speaker 1: Okay, way back up, you said you're seventy one. I did,
Speaker 1: and that you have maybe ten years of storytelling. But
Speaker 1: if I'm doing the math correctly and your dad lived
Speaker 1: to one hundred and six you got the DNA, you
Speaker 1: could be telling stories for thirty five more years.
Speaker 3: Your sharp Delilah. Yeah, but remember I also had a mother,
Speaker 3: are right? It could be It could be a while.
Speaker 3: But this film, although it's called One Life, it's really
Speaker 3: two slices of a year, each more or less out
Speaker 3: of one hundred and six years. The first slice is
Speaker 3: about eighty five years ago, just before the war, and
Speaker 3: that was a nine month period, and the second slice
Speaker 3: was about fifty years later when the story came to
Speaker 3: light and what happened, And I can tell you he
Speaker 3: did so many other things, all of many of them humanitarian,
Speaker 3: because he considered it to be part of every person's
Speaker 3: role in life to help others. And you know, as
Speaker 3: a society, we rely on helping each other, and we
Speaker 3: all benefit if we help, however small. You know, even
Speaker 3: just I liked when I talked to schools particularly, I
Speaker 3: like to use the story is an opening for a
Speaker 3: whole series of different views on life, one of which
Speaker 3: is to remind students and you, Delilah, that every day
Speaker 3: you change the world, and it may only be in
Speaker 3: small ways. You know, you smile at somebody who's feeling
Speaker 3: a bit depressed, and you think, so what, But you
Speaker 3: have no idea how that may have affected the person
Speaker 3: that you smiled at. They may have been going through
Speaker 3: some torment and inner turmoil, and you've just given them
Speaker 3: a little branch to hang on to rather than sinking.
Speaker 3: So there are so many small ways where every day
Speaker 3: we affect the world and we can change it for
Speaker 3: the better. Sometimes they're bigger than others. And my father
Speaker 3: happened to be in a situation where he noticed something
Speaker 3: which he felt needed to be done, and rather than
Speaker 3: sit on the couch and blame others and say they
Speaker 3: should fix it, he was active, and in fact he
Speaker 3: had In one of the letters he wrote in nineteen
Speaker 3: thirty nine, he said that he saw a difference between
Speaker 3: what he called active goodness and passive goodness. He said
Speaker 3: that active goodness meant going out and finding people in
Speaker 3: need and helping them, and that just being passive you
Speaker 3: weren't really good at all. You had to be active
Speaker 3: if you wanted to be a good person. So you
Speaker 3: can't just avoid doing bad things.
Speaker 1: I mean, it all boils down to this, are you
Speaker 1: going to love someone or are you going to be selfish?
Speaker 3: I couldn't put it better. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So there's another hero that I connected to in the movie,
Speaker 1: and that is the character that represented your grandma.
Speaker 3: Isn't she great? I've got to talk with one and Carter,
Speaker 3: and she is so sweet and she was so like Grandma.
Speaker 3: I mean I can remember Granny and you know, sitting
Speaker 3: on the verandah and talking and yeah, and she identified
Speaker 3: apparently with the role, but because of her heritage.
Speaker 1: So tell me about that, Tell me about your grandma,
Speaker 1: and tell me about the actress and her heritage, because
Speaker 1: I was as in love with her watching the movie
Speaker 1: and cheering for her as I was for your father.
Speaker 1: As Anthony Hopkins, who played your father, like, I don't
Speaker 1: think he could have accomplished any of that without her.
Speaker 1: It seems like she was the wind beneath his wings.
Speaker 1: She was the touchstone, if you will, that gave him
Speaker 1: the courage like. Never once did she say don't do that,
Speaker 1: You can't do that? What are you even thinking?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm It's one of the few, maybe small artistic
Speaker 3: licenses in the movie that I noticed, is that my
Speaker 3: father was a very accomplished typist. And again, when I'm
Speaker 3: talking with children school pupils, I have to remind them
Speaker 3: that typing a letter in nineteen thirty eight thirty nine
Speaker 3: was very different from what you do today. There was
Speaker 3: no word processor, no cut and paste, no templates, no
Speaker 3: spell checkers. You had a big mechanical machine and two
Speaker 3: sheets of paper and a piece of carbon paper, and
Speaker 3: your first draft was your final version. And it was
Speaker 3: slow and error, lots of errors, and he had to
Speaker 3: learn to type and did it very very quickly. But
Speaker 3: she was certainly a great force and a great supporter.
Speaker 3: She came over from Germany when she was quite young
Speaker 3: to marry my grandfather. How old I'm thinking early twenties,
Speaker 3: and she was quite bright, intelligent. I think she felt
Speaker 3: deprived of a career, although in that era, in the
Speaker 3: turn of the century, women were not really generally accepted
Speaker 3: in any form of work. But she was quite a
Speaker 3: force of nature, as the film shows, and I guess
Speaker 3: she had a reasonable sense of humor. I mean, I
Speaker 3: thought that Helena Bonham Carter's version was hilarious. I mean,
Speaker 3: she had some cracking lines in the film to remind
Speaker 3: the British establishment of some of the core values that
Speaker 3: we claimed to live by.
Speaker 1: That was brilliant, I know.
Speaker 3: And you know, my father was sent to what in
Speaker 3: England we call a public school, which for some curious
Speaker 3: reason is actually a private school. And he was in
Speaker 3: a very renowned school called Stowe in the first year
Speaker 3: that it was established, in the first year it was founded,
Speaker 3: and there the headmaster had the intention of, as he
Speaker 3: described it, turning out young men who were in acceptable
Speaker 3: at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck. So he
Speaker 3: wasn't just learning Greek and Latin and all the other
Speaker 3: useful things that you learn at a public school. But
Speaker 3: he was also learning how to be resourceful and entrepreneurial,
Speaker 3: which was a great asset to him in most of
Speaker 3: his life.
Speaker 1: So the storyline, like you said, it takes on one
Speaker 1: slice out of his life back the year before the
Speaker 1: World War two was declared. It started long before it
Speaker 1: was declared.
Speaker 3: Well, you declared. It's a little different dates from us.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, Well, the world decides when they're going
Speaker 1: to declare something, even though it's been going on for
Speaker 1: some time.
Speaker 3: Right, that's true.
Speaker 1: Let's pretend, let's close our eyes and pretend we don't
Speaker 1: see this. But your why did your dad why did
Speaker 1: he go to Prague in the first place? What was
Speaker 1: the motivation to go to Checkloslovakia?
Speaker 3: It is a great question.
Speaker 1: He had a career, he was established in his career.
Speaker 3: I've been reflecting a lot on his history. He was
Speaker 3: born of German Jewish parents. His father was a banker,
Speaker 3: and he was sent well, I think in those days,
Speaker 3: your father told you what your career was going to be. Usually,
Speaker 3: so he started in banking and after school he was
Speaker 3: sent to learn banking in Germany and he was sent
Speaker 3: in nineteen thirty thirty one. What an amazing time to
Speaker 3: learn banking, just after the crash of twenty nine, the
Speaker 3: beginning of the depression which affected most of the Western economies.
Speaker 3: In Germany, which was already suffering under the problems from
Speaker 3: the Versaid Treaty, which was by many people reckoned to
Speaker 3: be an unpayable bill for the First World War, and
Speaker 3: they had resorted to the only way they could afford
Speaker 3: well that there were three options. They could either default
Speaker 3: on paying the bill well, or they could print money,
Speaker 3: which is, you know, print the money to pay the bill,
Speaker 3: which is what they did. And my father had stories
Speaker 3: like when you sat down in a cafe to have
Speaker 3: a coffee or a pastry, you'd pay the bill before
Speaker 3: the coffee came because there was a risk. But by
Speaker 3: the time you'd finished your coffee, the prices would have
Speaker 3: gone up because their inflation was so huge. And that's
Speaker 3: the stories you sometimes hear of people with wheelbarrow full
Speaker 3: of notes because the legal tender had become almost worthless
Speaker 3: in the later in the thirties. So this was part
Speaker 3: of the backdrop. I mean, he made friends in Germany,
Speaker 3: he had extended family in Germany, so I think he
Speaker 3: probably had a greater sense of what was going on
Speaker 3: in Europe than maybe even some of the politicians did. Secondly,
Speaker 3: he was also really interested in politics. He had quite
Speaker 3: a lot of friends in the British Labor Party, which
Speaker 3: is our left wing, the equivalent of your Democrats, and
Speaker 3: he was more aware of how they were thinking. And
Speaker 3: he was in touch with a school master called Martin Blake,
Speaker 3: who he apart from discussing politics, with a company tim
Speaker 3: on school skiing trips. I think really to get a
Speaker 3: free skiing trip in exchange for looking after some of
Speaker 3: the kids. And they were great, They were really great friends.
Speaker 3: And this year that he was supposed to be doing
Speaker 3: another skiing trip, Martin had phoned him to say, I'm
Speaker 3: We're not doing the skiing trip this year. I've been
Speaker 3: to Prague. I want you to come and see what's
Speaker 3: going on here. And so he, instead of going skiing,
Speaker 3: went to Prague and then when he saw the reality
Speaker 3: of what was going on, he felt compelled to do something,
Speaker 3: and that's what the film explores.
Speaker 1: So a hit. His mother was Jewish, correct your grandmother?
Speaker 1: His father was German or British German Jewish German. Oh,
Speaker 1: both of them because I remember the rabbi asking him
Speaker 1: what are you? What do you consider yourself?
Speaker 3: As well? He was born in London. He was sent
Speaker 3: to a Christian school in England. We have Church of England,
Speaker 3: which is sort of religion lights. The schools tend to
Speaker 3: have religious services on Sundays and maybe a little lot
Speaker 3: of assemblies. He was baptized confirmed. He was brought up
Speaker 3: as an Englishman, and so when he had that conversation
Speaker 3: with the rabbi, it un picked kind of a curious
Speaker 3: of the Jewish group, which I still find quite interesting
Speaker 3: today because there seem to be three different definitions for
Speaker 3: whether you're Jewish. One is because your mum is therefore
Speaker 3: you must be, so it's racial. The second is that
Speaker 3: you're a religious jew you have either been born into
Speaker 3: it or converted into it. And the third is what
Speaker 3: i'd call cultural, which is you're not religious, but you're
Speaker 3: part of a synagogue. And they have, in my experience,
Speaker 3: amazing community support and outreach programs in a way that
Speaker 3: you know, is really public spirited, I mean, or be
Speaker 3: it in their own community, but it's outstanding. So it
Speaker 3: seems to me there are three different ways you could
Speaker 3: be called Jewish.
Speaker 1: I loved when the Rabbi was questioning him that you
Speaker 1: could see that for him it wasn't a god thing
Speaker 1: or a religious thing at all. It's the right thing.
Speaker 1: Saving children is the right thing to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And well turn it around, Delilah, and just for
Speaker 3: a minute, consider a lot of the refugee families were
Speaker 3: well to do. There'd be people like you and me
Speaker 3: and you know, lawyers and teachers, medical professionals, and suddenly
Speaker 3: they're homeless because they've been driven out of their homeland
Speaker 3: and they're fearing for their lives because they can see
Speaker 3: that Hitler blames the Jews for all the ills of
Speaker 3: the Third Reich and Germany. But there are other people
Speaker 3: as well who were standing up against Nazism who were
Speaker 3: also at risk, and they could see that their lives
Speaker 3: were in danger and were trying to get out of Germany, Czechoslovakia,
Speaker 3: that whole area, and some of them, recognizing them it
Speaker 3: might be difficult for them to get out, said is
Speaker 3: there anything that we can do about our children? And
Speaker 3: maybe we can send them to safety while we try
Speaker 3: and get out some other way. How difficult must it be,
Speaker 3: delire to put your four five six year old child
Speaker 3: onto a train to be brought up by strangers that
Speaker 3: you've never met in a country that you've never been to,
Speaker 3: when they speak a language you don't understand. I mean,
Speaker 3: it just makes the hairs on the back of my
Speaker 3: neck stand up to just think of how traumatic that
Speaker 3: whole period in those people's lives must be.
Speaker 1: No. I have six children that are adopted out of
Speaker 1: a refugee camp.
Speaker 3: Oh Delilah, how wonderful, How congratulations.
Speaker 1: My youngest will be eight next week. Their country was
Speaker 1: destroyed by war, never made the news. Nobody even knows
Speaker 1: that six hundred thousand people were exterminated. Nobody cares because
Speaker 1: it's an African nation, and nobody cares. And their parents
Speaker 1: survived the war and fled as children to a refugee
Speaker 1: camp in another African nation, Ghana, and I began working
Speaker 1: there in two thousand and four. There's nothing more important
Speaker 1: to me than saving kids.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and.
Speaker 1: I can never do what your dad did, but I
Speaker 1: can do what I can do.
Speaker 3: This is I find this the whole story of my
Speaker 3: father challenging in so many different ways. When you consider
Speaker 3: the sheer number of refugee children, you think that this
Speaker 3: is complete, insoluble the problem is so big that nobody
Speaker 3: can deal with it, and then you know, so maybe
Speaker 3: if it's too big, we shouldn't try. And my father,
Speaker 3: knowing it was big, said well, I am going to try.
Speaker 3: And okay, he saved less than a half, quite a
Speaker 3: lot less than a half of the children that were
Speaker 3: in danger. But for the ones who were saved, it's
Speaker 3: the whole life. It's not like you get a bit saved.
Speaker 3: You are either are the lucky one. And if you're
Speaker 3: the lucky one, even if it's just one, you would
Speaker 3: be so grateful.
Speaker 1: The end of the movie, when your mother and father
Speaker 1: invited some of the children to come to their house,
Speaker 1: did that really happen?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Verira was She lived not that far away, and
Speaker 3: yeah she was great fun and we had quite a
Speaker 3: few parties where the children came. But although they came
Speaker 3: originally to England, many of them traveled to other parts
Speaker 3: of the world later. And one of the great friends
Speaker 3: my father had was in Toronto. What's extraordinaries how many
Speaker 3: of them made huge contributions to the world. They weren't
Speaker 3: just passengers. Many of them were right at the top
Speaker 3: of their chosen profession, either in medicine or psychiatry or science,
Speaker 3: or politics or filmmaking, and the one in Toronto. Joe
Speaker 3: Slessinger was an award winning war correspondent and he and
Speaker 3: my father were like brothers. It was just so wonderful
Speaker 3: when they reconnected. I mean say reconnected when they connected,
Speaker 3: because for fifty years my father didn't know anything about
Speaker 3: any of them. He just got on with his life.
Speaker 3: But when he met Joe Slessinger, they were just adorable together.
Speaker 3: They had a terrific time.
Speaker 4: It was wonderful to seeing a fascinating conversation with Nick Winton, junior,
Speaker 4: son of Sir Nicholas Winton, who was instrumental in evacuating
Speaker 4: six hundred and sixty nine children to safety.
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Speaker 1: So what was it like being growing up in that
Speaker 1: kind of environment? The character that portrayed your mother Very Quiet?
Speaker 1: Is your mom very quiet?
Speaker 3: Very? Not quite as passive as the film suggests. No,
Speaker 3: she was also quite active in her own way, with
Speaker 3: helping to found a Europeans women's movement in Maidenhead, where
Speaker 3: they twinned with three other similar towns in France. In
Speaker 3: Italy and in Germany she was Danish, so we had
Speaker 3: a lot of Danish culture as well, so no, she
Speaker 3: was also it was good because again it was an
Speaker 3: era when my mother wasn't expected to work, so she
Speaker 3: was a full time house mother. Can I put it
Speaker 3: that way? And really it gave my father the space
Speaker 3: to do a lot of the things that he went
Speaker 3: on to do because he was involved in so many
Speaker 3: other charities and activities.
Speaker 1: I have to read your sister's book now, the fact
Speaker 1: that this is just two years slice out of his
Speaker 1: life and year sharing with us how many other things
Speaker 1: he did. I have to read the book.
Speaker 3: The production company Seesaw Films, who made the King's Speech,
Speaker 3: asked my father maybe five le ten years before he
Speaker 3: died if they could make a film about him. And
Speaker 3: you said no, no, no, no, There's already been plenty
Speaker 3: done about me, so he wasn't interested. My sister's book
Speaker 3: was published just a year before he died, or a
Speaker 3: year and a half before he died, and then they
Speaker 3: approached Barbara and said could they use that as the
Speaker 3: basis for the script and she worked with Linda Coxon,
Speaker 3: the primary script writer, and Nick Drake, so yes, it
Speaker 3: was an interesting life, covering so many facets. And you know,
Speaker 3: James Hawes, the director, said, you know, when you're making
Speaker 3: a film, remember it's one hundred and ten minutes. You
Speaker 3: can't condense ad one hundred and six years into less
Speaker 3: than two hours. So he said that they had to
Speaker 3: be very clear on what the story was going to
Speaker 3: be about, and it's very understated. You know, my father
Speaker 3: was a very ordinary man. He considered himself very ordinary.
Speaker 3: He found the whole acknowledgment when the story broke quite uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: I mean, he was a competent public speaker, you know,
Speaker 3: he gave good speech, he had a great sense of humor.
Speaker 3: But all the accolades he felt were completely misplaced and
Speaker 3: they really belonged with the people who were in danger
Speaker 3: in Prague while he was in London most of the
Speaker 3: time raising the money, finding the families and managing logistics.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a beautiful, beautiful movie and I would encourage everybody, anybody,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what your faith is, what your uh,
Speaker 1: your nationality is. I think it's such a much big
Speaker 1: your story. I mean it boils down to where's our humanity?
Speaker 1: Where's your heart? Do you care?
Speaker 3: It's a story of hope.
Speaker 1: And the way the movie portrayed your father is he
Speaker 1: was not interested, and I'm guessing that's who he was
Speaker 1: in anybody's political agenda. He was just saving kids' lives.
Speaker 3: Yes, that was the immediate need then and later it
Speaker 3: was mentally handicapped children. Because he had a son, my brother,
Speaker 3: who was born with dun syndrome, and in those days,
Speaker 3: the advice was, well, you can't look after him at home.
Speaker 3: You'll have to go into an institution. And he thought,
Speaker 3: you can't do that. He's gorgeous. So he worked out
Speaker 3: and it took a lot of research and thought whether
Speaker 3: they could look after him at home. I mean now
Speaker 3: today people don't think twice about it, but in those
Speaker 3: days there was the concern, how would it affect me
Speaker 3: and my sister, would friends that we have stopped coming
Speaker 3: to visit because there was this odd person at the
Speaker 3: house as well, And would it affect our growth and
Speaker 3: development and all sorts of things that you might not
Speaker 3: imagine today. And he said, no, we're going to look
Speaker 3: after him at home. And then he founded a Maidenhead
Speaker 3: Mentally Handicapped Society to support families who had similar problems
Speaker 3: and it's still going today sixty years later. So when
Speaker 3: he saw in need, rather than saying they should do something.
Speaker 1: About that, he did something about it about.
Speaker 3: There and say we should do something about that.
Speaker 1: Nick, I love your dad. I wish that I had
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to meet him. But what a blessing
Speaker 1: that I got to meet you.
Speaker 3: Well, if you go as you have to the film
Speaker 3: and you look at Anthony Hopkins, I swear it's not
Speaker 3: Anthony Hopkins on the film, it's my dad. He is
Speaker 3: so alike. It's just uncanny mannerisms, the looks, the way
Speaker 3: he walks. Everything. At times, I look at it and
Speaker 3: I just I just can't believe that I'm not looking
Speaker 3: at my part my father. Wow, most people won't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's your dad. Best gift, your dad gave
Speaker 1: you of all these lessons and miracles and stories and
Speaker 1: just a way of thinking and a way of breathing,
Speaker 1: in a way of being. Best gift if you were
Speaker 1: to pick one.
Speaker 3: Or two apart from my life, apart from.
Speaker 1: Your life, because your mom had a lot more to
Speaker 1: do with that than your dad.
Speaker 3: The heavy lifting, didn't she. Yeah, I suppose foundation that
Speaker 3: ethics are more important than anything that you know, the
Speaker 3: values that we live by are worth standing up for
Speaker 3: and not to compromise. And father loved the work he
Speaker 3: did in charities. He made great friends and they enjoyed
Speaker 3: doing it as projects together. It wasn't like a painful
Speaker 3: duty that he felt he was obliged to do. It
Speaker 3: was just like having a nice hobby.
Speaker 1: I love the entire movie One Life, from beginning to end.
Speaker 1: I sobbed ridiculous amounts of tears. I was dehydrated, I'm
Speaker 1: sure at the end of the movie. But so inspired exactly.
Speaker 3: It's not a depressing movie, though, Is it so inspired?
Speaker 1: It's not depressing at all.
Speaker 3: Yes, an inspiration and a reminder to all of us
Speaker 3: that when we see something that needs to be done,
Speaker 3: we should stand up and get involved instead of complaining.
Speaker 1: Amen. Amen, thank you for this time. Thank you for
Speaker 1: speaking on behalf of your dad.
Speaker 4: Nick.
Speaker 3: God bless you so lovely to talk to you, Deliah,
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. It's been a great pleasure.
Speaker 1: Inspiring generations through a legacy of courage? Is Nick Winton
Speaker 1: Junior mission? Inspiring generation through a legacy of courage? Isn't
Speaker 1: that beautiful and so true? Being the son of Sir
Speaker 1: Nicholas Winton has not only instilled a sense of responsibility
Speaker 1: in him, but also empowered him to convey lessons that
Speaker 1: are both timeless and universally relevant. Nick Junior is an impactful,
Speaker 1: thought provoking speaker who can shed light on the life
Speaker 1: and legacy of his father. His talks are more than
Speaker 1: a recounting of our history. They're a call to action
Speaker 1: for businesses, leaders, individuals, young people. Nick is available for
Speaker 1: events across the US, and you can contact him through
Speaker 1: his website in Winton dot com. That's www dot n
Speaker 1: Winton dot com. One Life The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton,
Speaker 1: a Bleaker Street ption starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter,
Speaker 1: Johnny Flynn, and Jonathan Price, made its debut in theaters
Speaker 1: on March fifteenth. The performances are powerful, the images are
Speaker 1: heart wrenching. The tears will flow freely. I promise you
Speaker 1: and I cannot recommend this movie enough. I cannot tell
Speaker 1: you enough how it broke my heart and then put
Speaker 1: it back together again. It is such such a powerful story.
Speaker 1: You will be moved, you will be in awe, you
Speaker 1: will be inspired. It is a mussy I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: You take some tissue. Take your teenagers. Please take your teenagers,
Speaker 1: my friends. Easter falls on March thirty first this year.
Speaker 1: What a wonderful way to end the month with the promise,
Speaker 1: the promise of Easter, of rebirth, of renewal. The tomb
Speaker 1: was empty, the stone was rolled away. For me, that
Speaker 1: is hope. I was so so moved by Nicholas Winton's story,
Speaker 1: inspired and motivated to do difficult but necessary things. Nick's
Speaker 1: motto is if something is not impossible, then there must
Speaker 1: be a way to do it. That is a motto
Speaker 1: we should all take to heart. I so am going
Speaker 1: to live that motto if I possibly can. What is
Speaker 1: it that you are called to do this spring? How
Speaker 1: can you make a difference in the world. You don't
Speaker 1: have to have lofty goals, you don't. You just need
Speaker 1: to be willing to reach out and love someone.