LW: Larry King

this evening (sunday 31st), 8.32-8.39pm (repeated from 4.02pm friday), on bbc radio 4 

larry king, b. 19.11.1933, d. 23.1.2021 (part of last word, obituary programme, presented by matthew bannister) 

“Larry King, the American TV interviewer whose long running show on CNN attracted guests ranging from Presidents to pop stars.”

including interview with … 

• television host christiane amanpour

• journalist michael carlson

(see also https://www.timesofisrael.com/larry-king-broadcasting-giant-dies-at-87-after-hospitalization-with-covid-19/)

Sunday: IRW anti-semitism

this morning (sunday 31st), 7.11-7.20am, on bbc radio 4 

sunday (presented by edward stourton) includes … 

“Islamic Relief Worldwide has been cleared of institutional anti-Semitism in an independent report after two trustees and a member of staff were found to have posted offensive social media comments, and resigned.”

including interviews with …

• former attorney-general dominic grieve, author of the independent report

• martin cottingham, director of external affairs, islamic relief worldwide 

(see also https://happysjewishtvguide.wordpress.com/2020/08/23/sunday-irw-anti-semitism/)

HL: Abusive behaviour (Get)

last monday afternoon (25th january), 5.10-6.04pm, on parliamentlive.tv 

house of lords 25/1/2021 includes …

Domestic Abuse Bill 

“This amendment specifically itemises one spouse unreasonably preventing the dissolution of a Jewish religious marriage with a ‘get’ as being within the scope of the Bill by bringing it under the definition of abusive behaviour.”

speeches by lord or baroness … Altmann (C) Deech (XB) Polak (C) Mendelsohn (Lab)

Palmer (LD) Moylan (C) Wilcox (Lab) Williams (C)

(transcript at https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2021-01-25/debates/218A33F6-D938-4EDB-A7AF-070FAE5D2330/DomesticAbuseBill#contribution-21012535000053)

(see also https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/we-must-end-the-stain-on-our-faith-of-wives-trapped-in-failed-marriages/)

(if you missed it, available from 17:09:45 to 18:04:00 at https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/d0ef739f-f7be-4bbc-9491-79007fae12a2?in=17:09:45)

HL: University anti-semitism

thursday 21st january, 5.01-5.22 and 5.27-5.54pm, on parliamentlive.tv 

house of lords 21/1/2021 includes …

Anti-Semitism: University Campus Incidents

speeches by lord or baroness … Deech (XB) Mendelsohn (Lab) Greaves (LD) Polak (C) Warwick (Lab) Altmann (C) Dodds (DUP) Pickles (C) Ludford (LD) Falkner (XB) Sheikh (C)

Mann (XB) Wasserman (C) Tonge (XB) Fox (XB) Gold (C) Grade (C) Austin (XB) Leigh (C) Palmer (LD) Bassam (Lab) Wolfson (C)

(transcript at https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2021-01-21/debates/C3E8CDFD-8212-4EFC-8DE4-43B2B0F8C2C8/Anti-SemitismUniversityCampusIncidents)

(if you missed it, available from 17:01:00 to 17:53:45 at https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/81bccb1f-cb2d-4251-9b12-b354bd0314f3?in=17:01:00)

HMD 2021: House of Commons

yesterday morning (thursday 28th), 11.15am-3.13pm, on bbc parliament tv 

house of commons 28/1/2021 includes …

Holocaust Memorial Day 2021

speeches by … Stephen Crabb (C) Margaret Hodge (Lab) Peter Bottomley (C) John Cryer (Lab) John Howell (C) Liss Cameron (SNP) Andrew Mitchell (C) Mark Tami (Lab) Sheryll Murray (C) Chris Evans (Lab) Matthew Offord (C) Rosie Duffield (Lab) Mary Robinson (C) Pat McFadden (Lab) Anfrew Percy (C) Feryal Clark (Lab) Liam Fox (C) Liam Byrne (Lab) Nusrat Ghazni (Lab) Paula Barker (Lab) Bob Stewart (C) Ed Davey (LD) Bob Blackman (C) Alex Sobel (Lab) Saqib Bhatti (C) Florence Eshalomi (Lab) Nicola Richards (C) ]Carolyn Harris (Lab) Lee Anderson (C) Lyn Brown (Lab) Elliot Colburn (C) Gerald Jones (Lab) Imran Ahmad Khan (Lab) Bell Ribiero-Addy (Lab) Peter Gibson (C) Jamie Stone (LD)

Brendan Clarke-Smith (C) Wes Streeting (Lab) Andrew Bowie (C) Fiona Bruce (C) Margaret Ferrier (Ind) Christian Wakeford (C) Charlotte Nichols (Lab) Marco Longhi (C) Mike Hill (Lab) Anthony Higginbotham (C) Patricia Gibson (SNP) Chris Clarkson (C) Kste Osborne (Lab) Mary Kelly Foy (Lab) Tom Randall (C) Ruth Jones (Lab) Jo Gideon (C) Catherine McKinnell (Lab) Duncan Baker (C) Richard Holden (C) Taiwo Owatemi (Lab) James Sunderland (C) Steve McCabe (Lab) David Simmonds (C) Zarah Sultana (Lab) Dean Russell (C) Kim Johnson (Lab) Robbie Moore (C) Christine Jardine (LD) David Amess (C) Fleur Anderson (Lab) Jonathan Gullis (C) Alistair Carmichael (LD) Jim Shannon (DUP) Kirsten Oswald (SNP) Steve Reed (Lab) Robert Jenrick (C)

(transcript at https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-01-28/debates/C0FE9708-9882-4882-B192-BAB440CDC202/HolocaustMemorialDay2021)

(if you missed it, available from 0:00:00 to 3:57:40 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000rsyk/house-of-commons-28012021)

(see also summary, 6.41-6.46am friday, on today on bbc radio 4, from 0:41:08 to 0:46:15 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000rnkc, repeated from podcast at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p095dz9s)

P4t: Gelfand 27/1/2021

yesterday morning (wednesday 27th), 5.45-5.48am, on bbc radio 2

pause for thought by rabbi shoshana boyd gelfand

“Holocaust Memorial Day: ‘Evil cannot flourish unless we allow it to’.”

P4t: Baginsky 27/1/2021

yesterday morning (wednesday 27th), 2.26-2.30am, on bbc radio 2

pause for thought by rabbi charley baginsky, ceo, liberal judaism

“Holocaust Memorial Day: ‘To heal we must face that which we are remembering’.” 

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

this evening (thursday 28th), 8.00-9.30pm, on bbc 4 tv (repeated from september 2020 january 2020 july 2019 january 2019 april 2017 may 2015 april 2014 and august 2011 on bbc 2, and from february 2016 and february 2013 on bbc 4)

the boy in the striped pyjamas (2008, based on the book by john boyne) (starring david thewlis, sheila hancock, and rupert friend)

“The tale of an unlikely friendship between Bruno, the son of a Nazi commandant, and Shmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Contains some upsetting scenes.”

Nazi France

yesterday evening (wednesday 27th), 10.26-10.43pm, on bbc radio 3 

nazi france (presented by matthew sweet) (in the free thinking series) 

“As we mark Holocaust Memorial Day, we hear about new research into the takeover of railways and civic buildings in occupied France.”

including interview with …

• historian ludivine broch 

• historian stephanie hesz-wood

• author michael rosen 

Yiddish and Rotwelsch

yesterday evening (wednesday 27th), 10.02-10.26pm, on bbc radio 3 

yiddish and rotwelsch languages (presented by matthew sweet) (in the free thinking series) 

“Discovering his family’s Nazi links is what happened to historian Martin Puchner when he set out to explore the use of a secret language by Jewish people and other travellers in middle Europe.

He joins author and language expert Michael Rosen for a conversation with Matthew Sweet about Yiddish, Rotwelsch, codes and graffiti.”

including interview with …

• martin puchner, author of the language of thieves 

• author michael rosen