Vichy Collaborators [9min @22:10]

Writer and critic Carmen Callil, founder of Virago Press, joins a 45min roundtable discussion on gender politics, Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh, and the legacy of Modernism, to discuss Nazi collaborators in the Vichy government. Her book Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland (Jonathan Cape) tells the story of the Nazi collaborator Louis Darquier, a villain and conman who managed the Vichy government's dirty work, 'controlling' its Jewish population as 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs'. It also tells the story of his daughter who was growing up in a small English village, unaware that her father was sending thousands of Jewish children to their deaths."Start the Week" sets the cultural agenda every Monday. Guests are drawn from the top movers and shakers in politics, history, science and the arts. The host, award-winning journalist Andrew Marr, also welcomes New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, art critic Martin Gayford and Victoria & Albert Museum curator Christopher Wilk.