well, it means you get attention and people want you to tell the story again and again. do you get sick of that? yeah, except that when they tell it again and again and again, they add a bit of their own. stephen chuckles well, let us together, then, tell the story, well, let us together, then, tell the story, for people around the world who do not know it. and let me take you back to prague, 1938, the end of 1938. how on earth did it come to be that a young man from london, who was a successful stockbroker, had a rather glamorous life, how did it come to be that he found himself in prague in 1938? how long have you got? tell me the short version. well, the short version is that my circle of friends were all those people who were very, very left wing. i mean, my friends were those people from the stafford groups, all those people i was with daily. and coupled with that, of course, my parents, being jewish, we were in direct communication with the jewish population in germany.
sir nicholas winton, welcome to hardtalk. for most of your long life, your extraordinary story wasn t particularly well known. but now it is known right around the world. do you like the fact that people now know exactly what you did in 1938 and 39? i don t mind the story being told. i m not so keen on the frills. what do you mean about the frills? well, you know as a journalist, better than i do, what i mean. well, it means you get attention and people want you to tell the story again and again. do you get sick of that? yeah, except that when they tell it again and again and again, they add a bit of their own. well, let us together, then, tell the story, for people around the world who do not know it. and let me take you back to prague, 1938, the end of 1938. how on earth did it come to be that a young man from london, who was a successful stockbroker, had a rather glamorous life, how did it come to be that he found himself in prague in 1938? how long have you got? tell me