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Amid mounting claims for reparations for slavery and colonialism, historian Zoe Strimpel asks how far reparative justice should go.\\n \\nShould we limit reparations to the living survivors of state atrocities, such as the Holocaust, or should we re-write the rulebook to include the ancestors of victims who suffered historical injustices centuries ago?\\n \\nAlongside testimony from a Holocaust survivor and interviews with lawyers, historians and reparations advocates, Zoe hears about the long shadow cast by slavery - lumbering Caribbean states and societies with a legacy that they are still struggling with today. \\n \\nAre demands for slavery reparations just another front in the culture war designed to leverage white guilt? Will they inevitably validate countless other claims to rectify historical grievances? Or are they a necessary step for diverse societies to draw in the extremes of a polarised debate so we can write a common history that we can all live with?

Presenter: Zoe Strimpel\\nProducer: David Reid\\nEditor: Clare Fordham

Contributors\\nMala Tribich, Holocaust survivor.\\nMichael Newman, Chief Executive, Association of Jewish Refugees. \\nAlbrecht Ritschtl, Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics\\nDr. Opal Palmer Adisa, former director, University of West Indies. \\nKenneth Feinberg, Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.\\nTomiwa Owolade, journalist and author of "This is not America". \\nAlex Renton, journalist, author and co-founder of Heirs of Slavery.\\nDr Hardeep Dhillon, historian, University of Pennsylvania.\\nJames Koranyi, Associate Professor of modern European History at the University of Durham.