History's Heroes Podcast Transcripts
BBC Radio 4 · 97 episodes with transcripts
Helena Bonham Carter shines a light on extraordinary stories from World War Two. Join her for tales of deception, resistance and courage in History's Secret Heroes Series 4.
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Madeleine Riffaud’s Defiant Resistance
October 13, 2026
Helena Bonham Carter (0:00)
The 23rd of July, 1944 A sunny Sunday afternoon in occupied Paris.
Madeleine Riffaud was riding a bicycle.
Rick Stroud (0:11)
She was very small. Her hair was braided in a great ponytail down her back.
She trundled through the streets of Paris, past people just having a nice Sunday afternoon, trying to forget the war.
Helena Bonham Carter (0:24)
The Allies had recently invaded northern France on D-Day, but Paris was still under Nazi occupation. It had been harsh and horrific. Tens of thousands of French prisoners had been rounded up and deported to concentration camps, tortured or, in some cases, shot. Seventy-eight thousand Jews were sent to death camps…
But now the Germans were on the back foot. Food was rationed. The mood was bleak.
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