Media and the Middle East

tomorrow evening (saturday 13th), 8.00-8.50pm, on bbc radio 4
media and the middle east (in the archive on 4 series) presented by john lloyd

with contributions from …
• Jon Snow
• Jeremy Bowen
• Martin Bell
• David Cesarani
• Daoud Khitab
• Lisa Goldman
• Anton Laguardia
• Toby Green
• Chris Doyle
• “Topaz”

Children of the Holocaust

early tomorrow morning (friday 12th), 4.00-4.45am, on bbc 2
children of the holocaust animation: eyewitness accounts from history, brought to life in animation for a young audience

includes interviews with …
• ruth rogoff (1933), from zwickau
• martin kapel (1930), from leipzig
• trude silman (1929), from bratislava
• heinz skyte (1920), from fuerth
• arek hersh (1928), from sieradz
• suzanne rappaport-ripton (1936), from paris

George Weidenfeld

tomorrow morning (wednesday 10th), 9.30-9.45am, on bbc radio 4
george weidenfeld (episode 3 of 5 in the publishing lives series) (repeated from 3rd october 2013)

The war of the tunnels

CORRECTION – this programme will now be broadcast next tuesday, 23rd, at 10.35pm

this is the third time it has been postponed!!!

CORRECTION – this programme will now be broadcast next monday, 15th

this is the second time it has been postponed

this evening (monday 8th), 8.30-9.00pm, on bbc 1 (repeated early thursday morning, 4.30am, on bbc news tv, freeview channel 80 or 130)
the war of the tunnels (in the panorama series)

“For seven weeks Hamas rockets roared over the border into Israel while Israeli bombs pounded Gaza.
Panorama’s Jane Corbin goes deep into the underground tunnels where battles have been fought to investigate the war that has devastated Gaza.
What has each side really gained in this war and can there be a solution to the conflict which is fuelling hatred and fear all over the world?“

Religious history of Iraq

this afternoon (monday 8th), 4.30-5.00pm, on bbc radio 4
religious history of iraq (in the beyond belief series)

includes an interview with former iraqi jew edmund shooka (0:11:35 to 0:16:20) …

“There have been Jews in Iraq for over 2,000 years. Today nearly all of them have fled, possibly never to return.
Edmund Shooka was born in Iraq. He describes himself as an Arab Jew.”

Sapiens: A brief history of humankind

every morning this week (monday 8th to friday 12th), 9.45-10.00am, on bbc radio 4 (repeated just after midnight, the next morning, 12.30am)
sapiens: a brief history of humankind (in the book of the week series)

“Adrian Scarborough reads from Israeli macro-historian Yuval Noah Harari‘s ground-breaking account of humankind’s remarkable history from insignificant apes to rulers of the world.
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one.
Far-reaching and provocative, Sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human, ending with a look at what lies ahead for humankind.”

(if you miss it, available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04g7lhj)

Remembering Chairman Mao

tomorrow morning (tuesday 9th), 9.30-9.45am, on bbc radio 4
remembering chairman mao presented by rebecca kesby (in the witness series)

“The Chinese leader Mao Zedong died on September 9th 1976. American Sidney Rittenberg first met him in the 1940s and he spent half a century living in communist China. Hear his memories of one of the world’s great revolutionaries.”

Arthur: Is that kosher?

this morning (monday 8th), 8.35-8.50am, on cbbc tv (freeview channel or 120)
arthur: is that kosher? (episode 3 of series 13)

“special appearance by Joan Rivers” as the voice of francine’s bubba

“Francine is determined to fast on Yom Kippur just like her older sister, until Arthur wins a free pizza party for his friends.”

Israeli patients on life support

last saturday morning (6th september), 11.30am-12.00, on bbc radio 4
from our own correspondent includes …

“Claudia Hammond discovers that many patients in Israel remain on life support for years“

Newshour: Steven Sotloff

yesterday evening (tuesday 2nd), 9.06-9.20pm and 9.47-9.55pm, on bbc world service radio (freeview channel 710)
newshour (presented by james menendez) leads with …

“The death of Steven Sotloff“

and includes interviews with …
• bbc reporter rajini vaidyanathan
• shirley sotloff
• matthew vandyke
• janine di giovanni of newsweek
• professor frederick wherry
• middle east reporter rania abouzeid
• former uk ambassador to syria, and former chairman of MAP, andrew green