History's Youngest Heroes: Audrey Hepburn’s Teenage Resistance

History's Heroes

BBC

Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Before she became a Hollywood star, how did the young Audrey Hepburn take on the Nazis in the Netherlands?

Nicola Coughlan shines a light on extraordinary young people from across history. Join her for 12 stories of rebellion, risk and the radical power of youth.

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

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

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0:07.0	Like, you're dead to me, where you can hear the latest episode 28 days earlier.
0:11.6	So catch it before it becomes history.
0:14.6	Good things come to those who don't wait.
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0:28.1	In a village in the Netherlands, it was Adrienne Chau van Heimstra's 13th birthday.
0:33.7	The 4th of May, 1942.
0:36.1	Her family were celebrating in the telephone round.
0:39.4	Her mother picked it up.
0:42.1	Adriancha knew something was wrong.
0:44.7	The party stopped.
0:47.0	Everything seemed to slow down.
0:50.8	Adriancho's aunt Misia was on the line.
0:54.1	In a panic, Miesia explained there'd been a knock on her door that morning. Arrayanchus aunt Misia was on the line.
0:57.7	In a panic, Misia explained that had been a knock on her door that morning.
1:04.4	Her husband Otto answered and was confronted by two members of the Dutch security police.
1:06.9	They had a warrant for his arrest.
1:10.5	They gave Otto 20 minutes to pack a bag. Otto gathered some belongings, reassuring
1:14.3	Mesia that everything would be all right. Then the police bundled him into a car and drove away.
1:22.2	Nazi Germany had invaded and occupied the Netherlands two years earlier in May 1940.
1:32.0	At first, the occupiers took a relatively soft-touch approach.
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