Newshour: Israel and the USA

yesterday (saturday 31st), 1.22-1.28pm, and 9.38-9.43pm, on bbc world service radio (freeview channel 710 or 107)
newshour (presented by julian marshall)
includes …

“a joint operation between Israel and the USA in 2008”

including contributions from …
• giora shamis, editor of intelligence and security news service DEBKAfile

• adam goldman of the washington post

Newshour: Alberto Nisman 30/1/2015

this afternoon (friday 30th), 2.23-2.28pm, on bbc world service radio (freeview channel 710 or 107)
newshour (presented by owen bennett jones) includes …

“What will become of Alberto Nisman‘s damning report?”

includes interviews with …
• bbc reporter wyre davies
• political analyst jorge castro
• lawyer marta necellus

Remembering AMIA

this afternoon (friday 30th), 12.15-12.21pm, on bbc world service radio (freeview channel 710 or 107)
the fifth floor (presented by david amanor) includes …

“Remembering the Amia Bombing:
Controversy has swept across Argentina following the death of Prosecutor Alberto Nisman who had been investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires in which 85 people died.
Natalio Cosoy of BBC Mundo was there that day.
He recalls his memories of the aftermath of the bombing, from helping to clear the wreckage to joining demonstrations calling for justice.”

Book Club: Judith Kerr

this sunday afternoon (february 1st), 4.00-4.30pm, on bbc radio 4
judith kerr – when hitler stole pink rabbit (in the book club series)

Arek Hersh

last tuesday morning (27th january), 9.00-9.30am, on lbc radio
auschwitz: a survivor’s return with nick ferrari

“Nick joined 86-year-old Arek Hersh on a tour of the concentration camp with his granddaughter Avital, who was seeing it for the first time.”

see also http://www.jewishnews.co.uk/read-nick-ferrari-auschwitz-emotional-day-il… and http://www.amazon.co.uk/A-Detail-History-Arek-Hersh/dp/0953628051

Newshour: Auschwitz 70 years on

this evening (tuesday 27th), 9.05-9.18pm, on bbc world service radio (freeview channel 710 or 107)
newshour leads with …

“Auschwitz 70 years on“

including contributions from …
• roman kent (lodz, 1929)
• auschwitz twins yona lachs and • vera kriegel
• israeli author yael shahar

Szmul Zygielbojm

this afternoon (tuesday 27th), 5.00-6.00pm, on bbc radio 4
pm includes the story of szmul zygielbojm

American Jewish identity

this afternoon (tuesday 27th), 2.50-2.57pm, on bbc world service radio (freeview channel 710 or 107)
newshour (presented by james menendez) includes …

“Are American Jews too obsessed with the holocaust to create an American Jewish identity?”

including interviews with …
• yair rosenberg of the tablet
• professor deborah lipstadt

Auschwitz twins

this afternoon (tuesday 27th), 2.35-2.41pm, on bbc world service radio (freeview channel 710 or 107)
newshour (presented by james menendez) includes …

“Newshour visits the 70th anniversary service at Auschwitz and interviews twins Vera Kriegel and Yona Lachs who were subjected to medical experiments”

Avraham Harshalom

this afternoon (tuesday 27th), 1.19-1.23pm, on bbc radio 4
the world at one (presented by sean ley) includes an interview with …
• avraham harshalom (born adam fridberg, 1925, in pruzhany), the subject of the 2004 film alive from the ashes
(see also http://db.yadvashem.org/films/supported.htm)