In the Presence of Evil

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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
02.10.2008
 (was 03.11.2007)

What would you do if you found yourself in the presence of murderous evil? Would you sell out to survive, or would you resist and try to hang onto your values? For how long? Maybe you reject the whole concept of evil. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll meet some people who aren't so sure anymore, including Ishmael Beah. He became a killing machine for the Army in Sierra Leone. They gave him an AK47 and a steady diet of drugs and war movies, when he was only 12 years old.

  1. Ishmael Beah on "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier"

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    Ishmael Beah was 12 when the army of Sierra Leone gave him an AK-47 and a lot of drugs and turned him into a killing machine. Beah's been rehabilitated and lives in the USA.

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  2. Elizabeth George on "With No One As Witness"

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    Elizabeth George, author of the Inspector Lynley mysteries, talks about her new novel that tells the life story of the mixed race boy who's arrested for the fatal mugging of the Inspector's wife, which occurred in the previous novel in the series.

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  3. George Bartenieff on "I Will Bear Witness"

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    Actor and producer George Bartenieff put together and performs a one man play called "I Will Bear Witness" based on the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew who survived the Third Reich.

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  4. Martin Amis on "House of Meetings"

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    Martin Amis talks with Jim Fleming about his new novel, "House of Meetings" and the legacy of Stalin on Russia.

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