Today: Tom Stoppard at 80

this morning (saturday 1st), 8.21-8.30am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by sarah montague and mishal husain) includes …

“Sir Tom Stoppard will be 80 years old on Monday … He was born Tomas Straussler in what was then Czechoslovakia, arriving here as a child after fleeing the Nazis. When we spoke at his home in North London, very close to the Grenfell tower, I asked him if he remembered seeing England for the first time.”

Today: Ken Livingstone

this morning (tuesday 4th), 8.46-8.50am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by sarah montague and mishal husain) includes …

“Ken Livingstone will find out today whether he’s going to be thrown out of his party, accused of damaging Labour with repeated comments about Hitler and Nazi Germany.”

including contributions from …
• bbc reporter ross hawkins
• ken livingstone
• jeremy newmark, of the jewish labour movement
(if you missed it, available from 2:46:30 to 2:50:20 at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ksc87#playt=2h46m34s)

Today: new settlement

this morning (friday 31st), 8.56-8.59am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by mishal husain and sarah montague) concludes with …

“Israel’s security cabinet has approved the construction of the first new settlement in the occupied territories for two decades.”

including contribution from …
• bbc reporter yolande knell

Today: Donald Trump

this morning (tuesday 24th), 7.24-7.29am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by mishal husain) includes …

“What do Palestinians make of the new American President? The mayor of Jerusalem believes the United States is serious about moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
• Haneen Zoabi is a Palestinian member of Israeli Knesset.”

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

Today: Suez 60

last friday morning (29th october), 7.43-7.48am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by mishal husain) includes …

“Tomorrow marks 60 years since the Suez crisis started with the invasion of Egypt by Israel.
Jennifer Boyle is potentially the last surviving member of staff from the British Embassy in Cairo at the time of the Israeli invasion in 1956.”

Today: Malia Bouattia

tuesday 27th september, 7.25-7.30am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by sarah montague and mishal husain ) includes an interview with nus president malia bouattia …

“Do you regret what you said about the University of Birmingham being a Zionist outpost?
I would totally refute, I put out before that I would certainly review my language, and would definitely want to, you know, explain the political context which I was discussing I absolutely was not, you know, was not saying the things that it’s been interpreted as if you will.”