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A powerful combination of film, text, and performance exploring the birth of modern human rights after the Second World War.  Told through the eyes of Nuremberg prosecutor and champion of the European Convention David Maxwell Fyfe, his words intertwine with musical settings of the poets who inspired him, with a backdrop of
archive film, images, and words.

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'A secular hymn for humanity...one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard...  sublime'

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A series of planned performances between
June 15th 2022 - November 4th 2025 
in the run-up to the 75th anniversary 
of the signing of the
European Convention on Human Rights

MAGNA CARTA PROGRESS 1 | SUMMER 2022

C Venues | Edinburgh

Arriving in the city in the spirit of the 8 companies who came uninvited to the first international festival staged 75 years ago this year, it has been a buzzing place to stage the first part of our Magna Carta Progress. 

FILL THE SILENCE TOUR | MAY 2022

Southwark Cathedral, London |
Mansfield College, Oxford |
St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh

Performances to highlight the need to secure justice for Ukraine and encourage people to sign an international petition calling for the establishment of an ad hoc tribunal to prosecute Putin’s crimes against peace in launching a war of unwarranted aggression. 

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On-Demand Livestream Available

Find out more about the history

The name of our educational wrap-around materials was inspired by a quote about human rights from Helena Kennedy on Radio 4 "the human is in the asking."
We believe the human is in the telling and retelling of the story of David Maxwell Fyfe's journey from Nuremberg to Strasbourg. 

 Watch the Film, Read the Book and listen to the Song Cycle at

 http://thehumansinthetelling.org/

The story so far

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LAUNCH OF KILMUIR PAPERS

10 DECEMBER 2013

Choral settings of Rupert Brooke's War Sonnets sung by a specially assembled Freedom Choir with readings from Maxwell Fyfe's papers performed at St Matthews Westminster.

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Interviews

Hear Sue Casson in conversation with MusicalTalk's Thos Ribbits 

Read Tom Blackmore talking to Three Weeks at
Ed Fringe 2014

The idea of fundamental human rights
is one in which I firmly believe

David Maxwell Fyfe

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