LW: Simone Veil

yesterday evening (sunday 16th), 8.30-8.36pm, on bbc radio 4 (repeated from 4.00pm on friday)
last word (obituary programme, presented by matthew bannistser) leads with …

“Simone Veil, the Holocaust survivor who became a leading French politician and President of the European Parliament.”

including contribution from …
• anne-elisabeth moutet

Outlook: Gunter Demnig

this afternoon (wednesday 10th), 12.22-12.29pm (repeated 6.22-6.29pm), on bbc world service radio
outlook (presented by matthew bannister) includes …

“Louise Gorman meets Gunter Demnig, a German artist who has been laying brass-covered cobblestones across 21 countries in Europe. Each stone is inscribed with a person’s name, date of birth and place of death.
Gunter has laid most of the 60-thousand stones, each one commemorating a Jewish victim of Nazi persecution between 1933 and 1945.”

Art Spiegelman

this evening (wednesday 1st), 5.07-5.24pm, on bbc world service radio
outlook (presented by matthew bannister) leads with …

“Art Spiegelman on why he made the epic comic book Maus.”

LW: Sir Sigmund Sternberg

yesterday evening (sunday 20th), 8.48-8.53pm, on bbc radio 4 (repeated from 4.20pm last friday)
last word (presented by matthew bannister) includes …

“Sir Sigmund Sternberg, the Jewish businessman and philanthropist who founded the Three Faiths Forum to encourage dialogue between Jews, Muslims and Christians. Born 2 June 1921; died 18 October 2016, aged 95.”

including interview with …
• friend and co-founder, rev marcus braybrooke

LW: Gene Wilder

yesterday evening (sunday 4th), 8.45-8.52pm, on bbc radio 4 (repeated from 4.00pm on friday)
last word includes …

“Gene Wilder, the comedy film actor best known for his roles as Willy Wonka in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and in Mel Brooks films like Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.”

Lastword: Elie Wiesel

yesterday evening (sunday 10th), 8.38-8.42pm, on bbc radio 4
last word (presented by matthew bannister) includes …

“Elie Wiesel, born 30 September 1928, died 2 July 2016 aged 87.”

including interview with …
• friend menachem rosensaft

Outlook: Gilad Millo

this morning (sunday 26th), 8.41-8.58am, on bbc world service radio
outlook weekend (presented by matthew bannister) concludes with …

“Gilad Millo has become a pop sensation in Kenya, singing in both English and Swahili. But a lot of his fans have been surprised to discover that he is actually an Israeli ex-diplomat in his mid-40s.
When our reporter Andrea Kidd went to meet him in Nairobi, Gilad told her how he discovered that his first song Unajua had gone to number one.”