Artistic & Cultural Representations of Ethel Rosenberg; the making of an American icon

Presented by Anne Sebba

In the 70 years since her death, Ethel Rosenberg has become an American icon, a symbol of how fear and hysteria can make a government behave shamefully. Sometimes it requires artists to make sense of this catastrophic historical failure of justice and mercy.

Biographer, historian, and author, Anne Sebba is a former Reuters correspondent and documentary presenter. She appears regularly on television talking about her books – mostly biographies including Jennie Churchill, William Bankes, Laura Ashley and Wallis Simpson.  Anne is a former chair of Britain’s Society of Authors and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research.