Angharad Hampshire & Katja Hoyer: What Would You Do?

The Mare – journalist Angharad Hampshire’s Walter Scott Prize-shortlisted debut novel – is a gripping portrait of an ordinary woman’s descent into inhumanity during World War II.

Historian Katja Hoyer’s Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe draws on archival research to explore the true story of how, as the war enveloped them, the inhabitants of the ancient German town of Weimar became witnesses, perpetrators, victims, and bystanders.

Together they discuss what we’re all capable of when faced with catastrophe.