Episode 11 - What Does Evil Look Like?

Nuremberg: The Trial of the Nazi War Criminals

January 1946, the army psychologist assigned to look after the Accused has a never-to-be-repeated chance to examine evil, close-up, day-by-day. What made these 22 men capable of such horrific acts? He spends time with them, he runs tests: just what will it reveal?

Gustav Gilbert, a German-speaking US Army Psychologist, is assigned to Nuremberg Prison to examine and watch over the defendants. The defendants value the chance to speak to him and he lets them – he writes up daily, copious notes of his conversations. Will he find the mystery of human evil? Starring Ed Stoppard as Gustav Gilbert, a New York psychologist, and featuring Jasper Britton as Joachim von Ribbentrop, once Hitler’s Foreign Minister.

Gustav Gilbert - ED STOPPARD Douglas Kelley - ILAN GOODMAN Robert H Jackson - JOSEPH MYDELL Sir Geoffrey Lawrence - NICHOLAS WOODESON Hermann Goering - NIGEL LINDSAY Edda Goering - ROSIE SHEEHY Emmy Goering - SOPHIA PETTIT Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe - FORBES MASSON Albert Kesselring and other roles - CLIVE WOOD John Amen - JOSEPH ALESSI Joachim von Ribbentrop - JASPER BRITTON Ernst Kaltenbrunner - JONATHAN CULLEN Otto Kranzbühler and other roles - MARK EDEL-HUNT Admiral Nimitz and other roles - NATHAN WILEY Alfred Seidl and other roles - HARI DHILLON Hans Frank and other roles - ANDREW WOODALL Titles - LEWIS MACLEOD

Sound Designer - ADAM WOODHAMS Studio Manager - MARK SMITH Casting Director - GINNY SCHILLER Original Score - METAPHOR MUSIC Writer and Director - JONATHAN MYERSON Producer - NICHOLAS NEWTON

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