In 1943 the discovery of a series of mass graves in the Katyń Forest near Smolensk ignited one of the most explosive rows of the Second World War. The identity of the victims was clear enough. They were the Polish military elite and significant figures from wider Polish society. But who was responsible? In this episode the writer Jane Rogoyska takes us back to the scene of a sinister and bitterly contested crime: the Katyń Massacre.
Listen here: The Katyń Massacre: Jane Rogoyska (1940)
