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but has decided that at
the age of 51 the time is
right for him to tackle
the issue. His aim is to
be able to read a story
to his 15-year-old
daughter before she
turns 16. Blades
commits to learning to
read with Read Easy, a
charity where
volunteers do one-to-
one coaching, using a
system developed for
use in prisons.Jay Blades:
Learning to Read
at 51
BBC1, 9pm
The “Hackney boy” Jay
Blades is a popular
presenter of the hit
BBC series The Repair
Shop. However, he is
also one of more than
seven million adults in
the UK who struggle to
read. He left school
with no qualificationsthrough the years,
however, the film
acquires its own
horrible weight. The
testimonies become
defensive, dubious or in
one case (ex-SS Karl
Hollander) downright
unapologetic — he’s
still a Hitler fan, and
thinks that everything
would have been fine if
only the Jews had been
deported instead of
killed. Kevin Mahermonths until finally, on
the morning of his
birthday, he got the
present he always
wanted. “It was a brown
shirt and a pair of black
trousers,” he says.
Others recall summers
spent singing cheery
songs about murdering
Jews (they can still sing
them, word perfectly)
or reading aloud
chunks of Mein Kampf.
As Holland movesconfronts a group of
history students in 2011,
warning them about
the dangers of
xenophobia. But mostly
it’s a catalogue of
slippery personal
histories beginning
with some jaunty
accounts, intercut with
archive footage, of what
it was like to join the
Hitler Youth. One
former Nazi seemingly
pestered his parents forveterans — some
Waffen-SS, some
Wehrmacht and some
“innocent” bystanders
— to produce this
fascinating document
of denial and evasion.
There are some
moments of awareness
among the aged
interview subjects.
One, a former SS
officer called Hans
Werk, is filmed choking
back tears as heViewing Guide
Joe ClayFinal Account:
Storyville
BBC4, 10pm
The British-
Jewish film-
maker Luke
Holland,
who died in June 2020,
spent the last ten years
of his life interviewing
more than 300 German
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