History's Secret Heroes: Series 3: The Salon Albahari

History's Heroes

BBC

Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Two apprentice seamstresses find an ingenious hiding place for their Jewish colleagues in wartime Sarajevo. Helena Bonham Carter shines a light on extraordinary stories from World War Two. Join her for incredible tales of deception, acts of resistance and courage.

A BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

Producer: Lorna Reader Development Producer: Suniti Somaiya Executive Producer: Paul Smith Written by Alex von Tunzelmann Commissioning editor for Radio 4: Rhian Roberts

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0:00.0	Elon Musk, the richest person on the planet, advisor to the U.S. president.
0:06.4	USA! USA!
0:09.0	The bare facts can make him sound like a comic book superhero or supervillain.
0:13.9	It's like Doc Knight, like the Joker is in charge.
0:16.3	I'm Jill Lepore, and my podcast delves in to the comic books and science fiction stories Musk read as a boy.
0:23.3	Foundation.
0:24.1	The hitchhiker's guide.
0:25.5	The Batman.
0:26.3	To help understand the future he wants for all of us.
0:29.6	I'm Doc Garthick Maga.
0:32.1	X-Man, the Elon Musk origin story.
0:35.3	Listen only on BBC Sounds.
0:40.2	BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:44.4	If you were a woman in Sarajevo in the 1940s, looking for a new outfit, there was one boutique you simply had to visit.
0:55.2	The Salonab al-Bahari on 19 Farhadia Street, which is the very posh pedestrian walkway,
1:04.1	a beautiful street with the latest fancy shops, cafes, beautiful restaurants.
1:12.0	Customers climbed a flight of stairs to the second floor of the building and took a seat
1:16.8	in the waiting room.
1:18.1	They were served Turkish coffee while they waited, as well as Turkish delight.
1:23.8	When it was your turn, you could choose a suit or gown made to measure.
1:28.2	They would look through pattern books and they would look through magazines
1:31.1	to see what kind of styles that they wanted.
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