Miriam and Youssef 7

tomorrow morning (sunday 14th), 10.06-10.33am (repeated from 3.06am 11.32am 4.06pm and 10.06pm wednesday), on bbc world service radio 

the warning (7th of 10 episodes of miriam and youssef) (written by steve waters)

“7. 1946. Elected headman of Deir Yassin, Youssef promises peace with their kibbutz neighbours. Meanwhile, a bomb has been placed in British headquarters – the King David Hotel.”

HH: King David bomb

this evening (sunday 22nd), 10.38-10.47pm, on bbc world service radio
the zionist bombing of the british headquarters in jerusalem in 1946 (presented by max pearson) (in the the history hour series)
includes interview by mike lanchin with …
• secretary shoshana levy kampos
(see also https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-70-years-on-perpetrator-and-victim-recall-king-david-hotel-bombing-1.5414282 and https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-44862029/i-survived-the-bombing-of-the-king-david-hotel)

Balfour Declaration

BBC bias: as usual, this Balfour critique makes no mention of the Balfour promise that “nothing shall be done which may prejudice … the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country“ – broken by the expulsion of 850,000 Jews from Arab countries
BBC bias: it includes, at 0:41:25 (without commentary), France 2’s notorious “Muhammad Al Durrah Incident” footage

yesterday evening (tuesday 31st), 9.00-10.00pm, on bbc 2
the balfour declaration: britain’s promise to the holy land (presented by bbc reporter jane corbin, a descendant of leo amery) (in the this world series)
including interviews with …
• yudit slotsky, 96, and ruth slotsky, 91
• amnon shashua, professor of computer science, and founder of mobileye
• yisrael meir lau, former askenazi chief rabbi of israel
• former palestinian prime minister abu ala
• yitzhak rabin
• yassir arafat
• oslo negotiator yossi beilin
• dr mahmoud al zahar, co-founder of hamas
• gila fenton, israeli living in nahal oz, half a mile from gaza
• lenny goldberg, follower of meir kahane
• journalist asma algoul of gaza

Media and the Middle East

tomorrow evening (saturday 13th), 8.00-8.50pm, on bbc radio 4
media and the middle east (in the archive on 4 series) presented by john lloyd

with contributions from …
• Jon Snow
• Jeremy Bowen
• Martin Bell
• David Cesarani
• Daoud Khitab
• Lisa Goldman
• Anton Laguardia
• Toby Green
• Chris Doyle
• “Topaz”