this evening (friday 29th), 6.25-6.27pm, on bbc world service radio
six o’clock news includes …
“An American family has caused panic at Israel’s main international airport after trying to check in with an unexploded artillery shell.”
including report from …
• bbc reporter jon donnison
(more…)this morning (thursday 28th), 7.50-7.53am, on bbc radio 4
thought for the day, by rabbi jonathan wittenberg
“I’m thinking of my great-grandmother, and those Ukrainian women I met, and of how to behave so that our faith in God and humanity remains unshakable, despite the horrors let loose by tyranny.”
(more…)last monday evening (25th april), 10.40-11.45pm, on bbc 1 tv
miriam margolyes: up for grabs (presented by alan yentob) (in the imagine … series)
“Miriam Margolyes is one of Britain’s best loved and most provocative actresses. Across her eclectic career, she has played scene-stealing turns in Blackadder, voiced some of our most well-known adverts and found fame internationally as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films.
(more…)this morning (tuesday 26th), 9.18-9.21am, on bbc radio 2
pause for thought by laura marks
“Disappointment is something I don’t manage well.”
(more…)this morning (tuesday 26th), 2.26-2.30am, on bbc radio 2
pause for thought by rabbi jeremy gordon
“Humour is more than a defence mechanism.”
(more…)saturday 26th october 2013, 9.37-9.48am, on bbc radio 4
saturday live (presented by suzy klein and richard coles) includes …
“• Henry and • Ingrid Wuga, Kindertransport refugees in 1939 who met and married in Glasgow and still live there together aged 89.“
(more…)last friday afternoon (22nd april), 2.16-2.30pm, on bbc radio scotland
the afternoon show (presented by nicola meighan) leads with …
“• Chitra Ramaswamy tells Nicola about her new book Homelands, about her friendship with Henry Wuga, a 98 year old Holocaust survivor, and the common ground they found.”
(see also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-46222818 and https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-60155896)
(more…)tomorrow morning (sunday 24th), 10.32-11.00am (repeated 12.32am, and repeated from 4.32am friday), on bbc world service radio
emancipation, assimilation, and jewish identity (presented by michael goldfarb) (in the heart and soul series) includes contributions from …
• rabbi herschel gluck
• conductor leon botstein
• diana pinto, author, a new jewish identity for post-1989 europe
“For 500 years the Jews of Europe were kept apart, legally segregated in ghettos. Then, at the dawn of the 19th Century, Jews were emancipated, and overnight what it meant to be a Jew in the world changed.
(more…)this morning (saturday 23rd), 11.36-11.41am, on bbc radio 4
from our own correspondent (presented by kate adie) includes …
“The Jewish population of Morocco is another which left for a new life, not in a sudden exodus but gradually from the 1950s onwards, as relations worsened between the Arab world and Israel.
At its peak, there were several hundred thousand Jews living in the country, many in the coastal town of Essaouira.”
including report from …
• bbc reporter elizabeth gowing
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