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THE TRUTH ABOUT: 2 - The Untold Story

Is A Small Light based on a true story? Everything we know about the truth behind the Disney+ series

Is A Small Light based on a true story? Here's what we know about Miep and her story, plus news about the actress who plays her.

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The week in TV: Tom Jones; Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story; A Small Light; Black Ops

ITV’s new period romp is charming if a bit well scrubbed; a spirited Bridgerton spin-off feels weightier – and sexier; and a familiar story is sensitively retold in Disney’s fine Anne Frank drama

The Guardian - UK

Bel Powley on Botox, nepotism and difficult sex scenes: ‘The heroin chic thing is gonna die again, right?’

The star of ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl’ and ‘Everything I Know About Love’ talks to Ellie Harrison about playing the woman who hid Anne Frank and rescued her diary in ‘A Small Light’

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Bel Powley says she was ‘touched inappropriately’ by senior crew member but was ‘too scared to say anything’

Star was frightened to ‘to rock the boat’ in her early career

The Independent UK

A Small Light review – this charming, poignant drama gifts Anne Frank’s tale to yet another generation

The writer is a minor character in a fresh, lively take on her family’s story. Its focus on her father Otto and his secretary Miep Gies – who hid the Franks – is engaging and courageous

The Guardian - UK

Behind the scenes of new wartime show A Small Light on Disney+: ‘we always need shows like this’

The show’s cast and crew talk about Anne Frank, modernism in period dramas and why telling these stories is so important

Evening Standard

Liev Schreiber on untold Anne Frank tale

Salon spoke to the actor and showrunners of "A Small Light," which highlights the woman who helped hide the Franks

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'A Small Light' focuses on those who helped Anne Frank

The new National Geographic series “A Small Light” stars Bel Powley as Miep Gies, a real-life heroine who protected celebrated diarist Anne Frank and seven others in a secret annex in Amsterdam during World War II

The Independent UK

‘A Small Light’ Offers a Unique Take on Anne Frank’s Story

Bel Powley plays ‘everyday superhero’ Miep Gies and Liev Schrieber plays Frank’s father Otto

Multichannel News

A Small Light cast: who's who in the World War Two drama

Meet the A Small Light cast who are bringing the story of Miep and Jan Gies, the people who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis during World War II.

WhatToWatch

A Small Light Showrunner Discusses The Goal To 'Take The Cobwebs' Off Miep Gies Beyond The Diary Of Anne Frank

A Small Light is a new limited series based on the true story of Miep Gies, and showrunner Joan Rater opened up about shedding more light on the woman known from Anne Frank's diary.

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Actor Bel Powley: ‘I’d shied away from second world war stories – it’s always all about men’

The Morning Show star on playing the woman who hid Anne Frank, revitalising period dramas and working with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon

The Guardian - UK

A Small Light on Disney+ review: this story of bravery and perseverance is a hammer-wallop round the head

The remarkable Miep Gies deserves to be spotlighted in this moving National Geographic series about Anne Frank

Evening Standard

Anne Frank’s story transformed the world’s view of the Holocaust. This woman kept her family and her diary alive

The diary of Anne Frank — written as she hid with her family and others in the annex of an Amsterdam building while Hitler’s Nazis hunted for Jews in the Second World War — is one of the most widely read books in the world. A new series shines a…

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A Small Light: release date, cast, plot, trailer and all about the moving war drama on those who tried to protect Anne Frank

A Small Light on Disney Plus follows the couple who hid Anne Frank's family and stars Bel Powley, Joe Cole, Liev Schreiber and Eleanor Tomlinson.

Wales Online

Bel Powley tells The One Show she was scared she would get Jennifer Aniston's name wrong

'For the first three months working with her I was just too scared to speak'

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Everything I Know About Love; We Own This City; My Name Is Leon; Avoidance

Dolly Alderton’s millennial memoir and Kit de Waal’s acclaimed social care novel are brought to the screen with aplomb, while David Simon’s new Baltimore cop drama is brutally compelling

Wales Online

BBC One Everything I Know About Love: Cast, air date and what it's about

The famous book has been made into a light drama series

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Evening Standard

Meet the break-out stars of Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know About Love

As the bestselling memoir hits TV screens, Amy Francombe rounds up the cast of the summer blockbuster about to go stratospheric

The Guardian - UK

‘The sex montage is just so freeing!’ The stars of Everything I Know About Love reveal all

With its wild passion, big dreams and 5ive dance routines, Dolly Alderton’s hit memoir thrilled millennial women. Ahead of the BBC’s adaptation, its stars pull on their peplum tops and talk booze, besties and beef stroganoff

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