Helen Chambers

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180 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 4 Jun

Helen Chambers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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In Our Time · Joseph Roth · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

Well, he meant he didn't like Berlin very much.

Well, I mean, it got worse and worse, of course, with the Nazi violence and with what was going on in the courts, which he saw very early on.

But he said it was like this waiting room.

It was a kind of no man's land environment.

And I think he said, I'm trading in books and newspapers to get the money to get my ticket out of here.

And you're quite right.

I mean, he travelled a lot.

He wanted to be the Paris correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung, but they gave it to another guy for reasons that we won't go into and wrote a thing or two to say about that.

But to kind of compensate for that, they sent him to Russia to report on Soviet Russia, on the new Russia war,

for four months in 1926.

So he did travel a lot, but he also did other trips for the Frankfurt Zeitung.

And that was the kind of thing they published in the press.

You know, I've traveled to Galicia or to the Ruhrgebiet or wherever it happened to be.

Yes, I do.

And I mean, I think it's got great humanity.

It's also very funny, despite what John has said.

I mean, it's morbid, but there is this conflict between officialdom and the army, which trains people to obey.

And then these characters, and you usually, and this is part of Rote's magic, really, you usually see the characters...

from their own perspective.

So you know what they're thinking.

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