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Multimedia reporter on BBC - based on Today programme, R4
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Ben Brettler

Ben Brettler

2024-02-0206:35

Ben Brettler escaped on the last Kindertransport out of Germany ... in 1998 I accompanied him on his first trip back to his home town.. 
Article 39 "Samantha Morton" 
My piece 4-6-21 on NFJO report on newborn care applications
Bristol local elections,Vic El
#FamilyRightsGroup #LifelongLinks #Care Review 
#exclusion #tashaun #Alternative Provision 
Ivan sails to South Africa and South America... a world away from Hackney and Austerity . There's an unfortunate incident involving Crepes Suzette.. and he meets "Esmerelda" a beautiful, rich young Brazilian girl...
Ivan starts work as a saloon boy and steward, sailing to South Africa. Hard work, the waiter known as Mabel, and drag shows in the crew bar. 
1953 continued : more jobs, and Ivan signs up for sea school aged 16 - dreaming of exotic foreign travel. His parents are not happy. 
1945--1953. Peacetime. Life in a prefab, arrival of a baby brother, getting into Grammar School.... and bunking off. First business - as a teenage entrepreneur, and first, short-lived, jobs. 
First part of memoir spanning five decades (so far!) Ivan Berg's wartime memories 1939--1945.  Evacuee, back in London for the Blitz - then sent away again, with father at war, mother in hospital, to a Kindertransport Hostel. 
Headteachers of Alternative Provision schools worry their Y11 pupils are at risk of criminal or sexual exploitation, out of school for so long. On 0636 @BBCR4Today 26/6/2020
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