Today: Is Labour anti-semitic?

this morning (thursday 11th), 6.01-6.02am, 6.35-6.39am, 7.09-7.15am, 7.30-7.43am, 8.01-8.03am, 8.10-8.25am, and 8.55-9.00am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by justin webb) leads with …

“Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson has described as chilling allegations that senior party figures tried to interfere in anti-semitism cases.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter jessica parker

• bbc reporter norman smith

• lord levy

• sam matthews, chief investigator, disputes team, 2017-2018

• journalist dawn foster

• tom watson mp

• journalist rachel shabi, author of not the enemy, israel’s jews from arab lands

Newsnight: Corbyn at risk?

yesterday evening (tuesday 5th), 10.32-10.42am, on bbc 2 tv
newsnight (presented by kirsty wark leads with …

“Is Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership at risk of becoming in serious jeopardy because of the ongoing anti-semitism crisis rocking the top of the Labour Party? It was another torrid day for the Labour leader, beginning with the Labour MP Margaret Hodge’s claims that she’d been misled over assurances that his office was not involved in any disciplinary process over allegations of anti-semitism …”

including contributions from …
• bbc reporter nicholas watt
• margaret hodge mp
• ivor caplin, chair, jewish labour movement
• jenny manson, co-chair, jewish voice for labour
• lord levy

Newsnight: Levy on Corbyn

this evening (thursday 29th), 10.18-10.23pm, on bbc 2 tv (repeated friday 9.20-9.25pm on bbc world service radio, and 10.18-10.23pm on bbc radio 4)
newsnight (presented by evan davis) includes …

“The Labour anti-semitism row“

including interview with …
• lord levy

Today: Corbyn accused

this morning (tuesday 27th), 6.09-6.13am, 6.54-6.58am, 7.02-7.04am, 7.34-7.43am, and 8.02-8.04am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by john humphrys and mishal husain) includes …

“Labour and anti-semitism allegations”

including contributions from …
• tony blair
• bbc reporter norman smith
• bbc reporter matthew price
• john mann mp
• bbc reporter chris mason
• lord levy
• rebecca long-bailey mp

British Jews, right and left

yesterday evening (saturday 9th), 8.00-9.00pm, on bbc radio 4
british jews, right and left (presented by jo coburn) (in the archive on 4 series)

“How did Britain’s Jews make their long journey from left to right over the last century?
BBC Political Correspondent Jo Coburn tells this remarkable story by weaving archive and interviews together with the story of her own family.”

including interviews with …
• ruth smeed mp
• jon lansman of momentum
• lord levy
• edwina currie
• rabbi jonathan romain
• professor geoffrey alderman
• emanuel litvinoff
• ian mikardo
• melanie phillips
• oliver letwin mp
• mike katz of jewish labour movement

Today: Ken Livingstone suspended

this morning (wednesday 5th), 7.32-7.33am, and 7.34-7.41am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by john humphrys) includes …

“The former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has been suspended from representing the Labour party, after the National Constitutional Committee found him guilty of making controversial comments about Hitler and Zionism.”

including interview with …
• lord levy

Today: Kerry’s speech

this morning (thursday 29th), 7.51-7.58am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by mishal husain and sarah montague) includes …

“US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has said the prospect of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is in grave jeopardy.”

including interview with …
• lord levy