Pick of the week
Half-Life
When poet, novelist and journalist Joe Dunthorne decided to write a family history, he had no idea what he was getting into. His journey started, unpromisingly, with a turgid 2,000-page memoir written by his great-grandfather Siegfried. But while looking for an account of his family’s escape from Nazi Germany, Dunthorne found something much more disturbing. This gripping podcast follows him as he reconstructs an erased history. Phil Harrison
BBC Sounds, episodes weekly
