last tuesday morning (22nd april), 10.30-11.00am, on bbc radio 4 extra (repeated 4.30pm and 12.30am, and repeated from june 2018 and september 2015, and from november 2009 on bbc radio 4
find me a new york jewish princess (by tim samuels)
“A light-hearted look at the New York Jewish dating scene through the eyes of presenter Tim Samuels, a London-based single Jew desperate to find the girl of his dreams.”
(more…)last sunday afternoon (3rd march), 2.00-3.00pm, on bbc radio 3
the early music show (21st episode, 14th series) (presented by lucie skeaping) includes …
“And finally, there’s an imagined Jewish woman on her final night in Seville as the Spanish Reconquista looms over the Kingdom of Al-Andalus.
She is being forced to leave Spain and set sail for an uncertain future.
Her story echoes down the ages to the personal stories of people affected by politics and war today. She tunes into the voices of a community of Jewish, Christian and Muslim women from across the Spanish peninsula.”
(more…)this afternoon (friday 8th), 1.40-1.44pm, on bbc radio 4
world at one (presented by jonny dymond) includes …
“JW3, the Jewish Cultural Centre in London, is staging possibly the world’s first Jewish pantomime.”
including contributions from …
• bbc reporter caroline wyatt
• actress lauren silver
• william galinsky, jw3
(see also https://www.thejc.com/life-and-culture/meet-the-first-ever-big-bad-pig-aclyw3rz and https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/jw3-to-stage-first-ever-chanukah-panto/ and https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/all-you-need-to-about-jw3s-first-panto/)
(more…)yesterday morning (wednesday 11th), 10.06-10.56am (repeated 12.06am, and repeated from 3.06am sunday and 12.06pm saturday), on bbc world service radio
• michael chabon (in the world book club series) (interviewed by harriett gilbert)
“American writer Michael Chabon talks about his 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
From Jewish mysticism to Houdini to the Golden Age of Comic Books and WWII, Chabon’s immersive novel deals with escape and transformation through the lives of two Jewish boys in New York.
(more…)yesterday evening (tuesday 26th), 10.00-10.45pm, on bbc radio 3
betty miller and marghanita laski (presented by matthew sweet, with • novelist howard jacobson, • academic lisa mullen, and • author lara feigel) (in the free thinking series)
“Rejected by her usual publisher, Farewell Leicester Square is a novel by Betty Miller, written in 1935, exploring antisemitism, Jewishness and ‘marrying out’.
Marghanita Laski may now be best known for her contributions to broadcasting on programmes like The Brains Trust, but was also a published author of many stories including The Victorian Chaise-Longue and Little Boy Lost.
Both writers have now been republished by Persephone Books.”
(more…)this afternoon (thursday 24th), 3.30-4.00pm (repeated from 4.00pm sunday), on bbc radio 4
open book (presented by johny pitts)
“Award-winning Israeli author • Ayelet Gundar-Goshen talks to Johny Pitts about her latest novel The Wolf Hunt, a suspenseful exploration of the fault lines in a community, a school, and a family, as a mother begins to suspect her teenage son of committing a terrible crime.
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is a clinical psychologist and writer, and discusses the links between her two worlds, as well as what it means to be a parent when you fear that your child may be the perpetrator and not the victim.”
(more…)this morning (friday 4th), 11.30am-12.00, on bbc radio 4
labels (comedy, 1st of 4 episodes, 2nd series, of ashley baker: 6.5 children) (with shelley blond, kieran hodgson, and rosie holt)
“Are your children ‘Coldplays’ or ‘Zappas’? In the first episode of comedian Ashley Blaker’s new series about raising children with special educational needs, he addresses labels, including his own terminology to differentiate between his kids.
Ashley Blaker: 6.5 Children is a mix of stand-up and observational recording featuring the voices of Ashley’s real family.
The series brings a whole new perspective to the subject of parenting. Three of Ashley’s children have a diagnosis – two boys with autism and ADHD, and an adopted girl with Down Syndrome – and Ashley Blaker: 6.5 Children sensitively finds the funny in raising children with disabilities.”
(more…)this evening (saturday 29th), 8.02-8.59pm, on bbc radio 4
shticks and stones: jewish comedy and antisemitism (presented by david schneider) (in the archive on 4 series)
“David Schneider is joined by fellow funny people including comedians David Baddiel and Judy Gold and Robert Popper, creator of Friday Night Dinner, to delve into the archives and explore what makes Jewish humour distinct and how it reacts in times of rising antisemitism.
(more…)this afternoon (friday 28th), 6.00-6.30pm, on channel 4 tv
like father, like clown (6th episode, 3rd series, of the simpsons) (with prime-time-emmy-winnning performance by jackie mason)
“Bart and Lisa attempt to reunite Krusty the Clown with his long-estranged rabbi father.”
(if you miss it, available at https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-simpsons)
tomorrow morning (friday 21st), 12.45-2.30am, on legend tv (repeated 10.50pm saturday 29th on horror xtra tv)
the golem (2018) (israeli film, in english)
“During a deadly plague, a woman tries her best to save her tight knit Jewish community from invaders.”
(not available online)
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