this afternoon (tuesday 31st), 4.35-4.49pm, on bbc world service radio
bbc os (presented by ben james and james reynolds) includes …
“We also bring together three journalists from the US, Israel and India to hear how they and the media in their countries are covering the war in Ukraine.”
including contribution from …
• journalist allison kaplan sommer, haaretz
(more…)this morning (monday 30th), 8.50-9.00am (repeated 12.50pm 6.50pm and 3.50am), on bbc world service radio
the attack on lod airport (presented by simon watts) (in the witness history series)
“In May 1972, Japanese gunmen attacked Lod airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. They were left-wing militants working for a Palestinian organisation.
Twenty-six people were killed that day and more than 70 others were injured.”
including 2011 interview with …
• survivor ros sloboda
(see also ros’s sister’s story at https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/before-munich-there-was-lod-40-years-since-the-lod-airport-massacre/)
(more…)this morning (monday 29th), 12.08-12.09am, on bbc radio 4
midnight news includes …
“Officials say seventy thousand Israelis have joined an annual Flag March through Jerusalem’s Old City, some of them taunting Palestinians as they passed through the Muslim Quarter.
Palestinians responded by hurling objects from rooftops.
Reports suggest that more than seventy people were injured.”
including report from …
• bbc reporter yolande knell
(more…)yesterday afternoon (friday 27th), 1.06-1.07pm, on bbc radio 4
world at one (presented by jonny dymond) includes …
“Al Jazeera news network says it’s referring the death of a Palestinian journalist to the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
This comes after an investigation by the Palestinian Authority concluded that Shireen Abu Akleh was deliberately killed by an Israeli soldier during a raid in the West Bank.
Israel says the allegation is a blatant lie.”
including report from …
• bbc reporter yolande knell
(more…)this morning (friday 27th), 4.32-5.00am (repeated 10.32am sunday and 12.32am monday), on bbc world service radio
after isis: reviving the jewish history of mosul (presented by michael goldfarb) (in the heart and soul series) …
“ISIS nearly destroyed it, now Omar Mohammad (Mosul Eye) is recovering the lost Jewish history of Mosul.
Michael Goldfarb spends time with him as Omar collects oral histories from the remaining Jews who were born and grew up in the city.
Most Jews left the city in the early 1950’s in the upheaval following the establishment of Israel. They settled in Haifa. Today they hold regular sessions via zoom with the historian talking about their lives in the city and their culture.
Goldfarb also speaks with • Rabbi Carlos Huerta, retired US Army Chaplain, who spent the first year after the US overthrew Saddam Hussein in Mosul with the 101st Airborne. He had no idea about the rich Jewish history of the place, and spent much of his time investigating it. Asked how the city made him feel he says, I felt like I had come home.
(more…)early tomorrow morning (thursday 26th), 12.05-1.05am (repeated from 7.35pm), on pbs america tv
jerusalem (narrated by benedict cumberbatch) (1st of 2 episodes)
“2012 documentary examining the 4,000-year-old story of Jerusalem.”
including contributions from …
• muslim resident farah ammouri
• jewish resident revital zacharie
• christian resident nadia tadros
• archaeologist jodi magness
(not available online)
this morning (monday 23rd), 5.24-5.29am, on bbc world service radio
newsday (presented by alex ritson) includes …
“A colonel in the powerful Iranian Revolutionary Guard was shot dead yesterday in the country’s capital, Tehran. Two people on a motorcycle are reported to have fired at Colonel Sayad Khodayari in his car outside his home in Teheran.”
including interview with …
• behnam ben taleblu, foundation for defense of democracies
(see also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-61546145 and https://www.timesofisrael.com/slain-iranian-officer-said-to-have-planned-attacks-against-israelis-jews-worldwide/)
(more…)last saturday evening (14th may), 11.42-11.50pm (repeated 4.42am sunday and 10.06am monday), on bbc world service radio
the cultural frontline (presented by tina daheley) includes …
“This year Kaunas, Lithuania’s second largest city, is one of the three European Capitals of Culture 2022. It’s a place with a troubled past and one the topics being explored during this year of Culture is its forgotten or suppressed history.
One of the artists who’s exhibiting there is William Kentridge. His family emigrated to South Africa from Lithuania more than a century ago to escape antisemitism and the pogroms.
For years, the internationally acclaimed artist admits he was reluctant to visit the land of his ancestors.
Kentridge, who combines his trademark charcoal drawings with animation and sculpture, is well known for tackling difficult subjects such as racial and financial inequality. Lucy Ash met him at the National Art Museum in Kaunas at his exhibition That Which We Do Not Remember.”
including interview by lucy ash with …
• artist william kentridge
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