David Irving: The London Trial [40min]

On 11th January 2000, one of the most important libel trials in English legal history began at the high court. The Plaintiff, the now discredited historian David Irving, lost his case and three subsequent appeals. On October 30th 2001, the legal process set in motion by this case was finally exhausted. Those findings formed the backdrop for Irving's recent criminal conviction in Vienna for denying the Holocaust. The programme features unique contributions from all the protagonists in this extraordinary case, including, for the first time, an interview with the judge himself. The unprecedented access gained for this programme produces a vivid, sometimes shocking and often moving account of the trial which some have said has done for the new century what the Nuremberg Tribunals and the Eichmann trial did for earlier generations.