this afternoon (monday 31st), 1.24-1.29pm, on bbc world service radio
newshour (presented by razia iqbal) includes …
“Hamas have sealed off a refugee camp in Gaza city, and are making people stay indoors to try to contain a spike in coronavirus infections.”
including interview with …
• abdul latif al-hajj, general-director of international cooperation, gaza ministry of health
(more…)this afternoon (monday 31st), 1.05-1.06pm on bbc radio 4, and 2.54-2.59pm on bbc world service radio (repeated 9.20pm, and repeated 5.40pm on pm on radio 4)
world at one (presented by jonny dymond) and newshour (presented by razia iqbal) include …
“Within the last half-hour, the first direct commercial flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi has touched down, marking the normalisation of ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. An agreement between the two countries, announced by President Trump earlier this month, makes the UAE only the third Arab country to establish relations with Israel.”
including contributions from …
• bbc reporter tom bateman
• bbc reporter yolande knell
• oren gabrieli, co-founder and ceo of nanoscent, producer of the 30-second test for coronavirus
• former ambassador dore gold
• palestinian-american businessman sam bahour
(see also https://www.timesofisrael.com/el-al-flight-lands-in-uae-after-becoming-1st-israeli-plane-to-cross-saudi-arabia/ and https://www.timesofisrael.com/stepping-off-israeli-plane-in-uae-kushner-urges-others-join-us-expand-peace/)
(more…)this morning (monday 31st), 6.55-6.59am on bbc world service radio, and 8.40-8.46am on bbc radio 4
newsday (presented by clare mcdonnell) and today (presented by mishal husain) include …
“A sixteen-year-old has helped to uncover details of what happened to his great-grandmother in Germany in 1945 after she had survived Auschwitz. Lily Ebert, who’s now 96, told her great-grandson, Dov Forman, about a note an American soldier had given her. The teenager then used social media to track down the soldier and the soldier’s family, and footage shot on a train platform that shows Lily waiting to leave Germany for Switzerland.”
including interviews with …
• auschwitz survivor lily ebert
• great-grandson dov forman
(see also https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/lily-ebert/)
(more…)yesterday evening (sunday 30th), 11.52-11.59pm (repeated from 11.52am and 6.52am, and 2.52am on friday), on bbc world service radio
fruit of thy womb (in the heart and soul series) (produced by julia paul)
“In many religions, … infertility can be seen as a punishment. What impact does that have on the faith of women who find they’re unable, or unwilling, to conceive?”
including contribution from …
• elena gormley, chicago
(more…)this afternoon (sunday 30th), 1.41-1.45pm, on bbc world service radio
newshour (presented by james coomarasamy) includes …
“The current health crisis in Gaza comes at a time of rising tensions with Israel.”
including report from …
• bbc reporter yolande knell
(more…)yesterday evening (friday 28th), 9.55-9.59pm, on bbc world service radio
newshour (presented by paul henley) concludes with …
“Scientists all over the world are looking for ways of speeding up and economising the whole Covid testing process. Laboratories can already take a short-cut of sorts by pooling swab samples and testing several in one go. But that method depends on being able to physically store every single person’s swab test for the duration of the process. Researchers from Israel have found a way round that: they’ve devised a mathematical key that reliably identifies one person’s results even when it’s from a swab among dozens simultaneously checked.”
including interview with …
• noam shental, head of computer science, open university of israel
(more…)this afternoon (friday 28th), 4.16-4.22pm (repeated 8.46pm sunday), on bbc radio 4
angela buxton, b. 16.8.1934, d. 14.8.2020 (part of last word, obituary programme, presented by julian worricker)
“The tennis player Angela Buxton, who faced discrimination in the sport because of her Jewish heritage, and who formed a winning doubles partnership with Althea Gibson”
including interview with …
• former bbc radio tennis commentator richard evans
(more…)yesterday morning (thursday 27th), on bbc radio 2
pause for thought by educator laurie rosenberg
“I always try to remember that within each person, there is wildness and gentleness.”
(more…)this evening (wednesday 26th), 5.22-5.25pm on bbc radio 4, and 9.40-9.44pm on bbc world service radio
pm (presented by carolyn quinn) and newshour (presented by ben james) include …
“The are fears of the first major outbreak of coronavirus in the impoverished Gaza strip. Until this week, it had seemed that the relative isolation of Gaza, which is kept under blockade by Israel and Egypt, had worked to protect it, as cases had been limited to quarantine centres. But today one man died of Covid, and cases were found at two hospitals.”
including contributions from …
• bbc reporter yolande knell
• suher zahut, icrc, gaza
(more…)this afternoon (wednesday 26th), 12.33-12.39pm (repeated 6.33pm and 3.33am, and repeated from july 2016), on bbc world service radio
outlook (presented by jo fidgen) includes …
“• Ran Feinstein and • Ofer Ra’anan are divers from the Israeli city of Ra’anana, who get together on free days and weekends to explore the coastline around the country. Back in 2016, on one of their diving trips off the ancient port of Caesarea, they discovered some unexpected treasure – a sunken Roman ship full of artefacts.”
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