Weekend/Today: Australia & Jerusalem

this morning (saturday 15th), 6.16-6.21am on bbc world service radio, and 7.05-7.07am (repeated 8.05am) on bbc radio 4
weekend (presented by julian worricker) and today (presented by justin webb and nick robinson) include …

“Australia has recognised West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, but it won’t be moving its embassy from Tel Aviv at this stage.”

including contributions from …
• former australian ambassador to israel dave sharma
• bbc reporter phil mercer
(see also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-46576716)

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Today: Holocaust Memorial plans

this morning (tuesday 4th), 7.21-7.27am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by nick robinson) includes …

“It will stand next to Parliament, a reminder both of the evil that those with power can do and of what they have to make a stand against. The latest plans for a new Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre are being published today, its aim to ensure that future generations remember what happened, and realise that it could happen again.”

including contributions from …
• hannah lewis, born 1937, wlodawa
• ed balls mp
• lord ed pickles
• baroness ruth deech

Today: Auschwitz music

this morning (monday 3rd), 8.08-8.10am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by nick robinson) includes …

“Music arranged [but not written] by Polish prisoners at Auschwitz is being heard again for the first time since the Second World War. Professor Patricia Hall of the Univesity of Michigan found the handwritten sheet music in the archives at the former concentration camp in Poland.”

including report from …
• bbc reporter charlotte gallagher
(see also https://www.apnews.com/b9d7922a834f492cace3eee274987efc)

Blair on anti-semitism

yesterday afternoon (friday 2nd), 1.45-2.00pm, on bbc radio 4
tony blair (interviewed by nick robinson) (in the political thinking series) includes …

“This anti-semitism thing has been bad because it’s been in the end something I just can’t imagine having happened in the Labour Party that I joined, all the way through to this moment, I can’t imagine that we’ve had 3 to 4 months debating over something where we have profoundly insulted the Jewish community in our country.”

Today: Labour hounding Joan Ryan

this morning (wednesday 26th), 7.54-7.56am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by nick robinson from the Labour Party conference) includes …

“Now there’s an issue that has been very painful for the party, I think rather painful for you personally too over the summer, as well as Jeremy Corbyn, the issue of anti-semitism. You were also on the fringe of this conference last night, giving a speech in which you attacked what you called the hounding out of a Labour MP, chair of the Labour Friends of Israel, Joan Ryan, by people who’ve only just joined the Labour Party.”

including interview with …
• tom watson mp

Today: Labour safe for Jews?

this morning (monday 24th), 6.42-6.43am, 6.50-6.54am, and 8.22-8.23am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by nick robinson from the Labour Party conference) includes …

“The row about anti-semitism in the Labour Party, the row which divided the Labour Party all summer, may have slipped from the headlines, but it still rumbles on on the fringes of this party conference in Liverpool. One Jewish Labour MP, Luciana Berger, the MP for this city of Liverpool, arrived at a Jewish Labour Movement rally accompanied by a police officer for protection.”

including interviews with …
• rabbi laura janner-klausner
• john mcdonnell mp

Today/PM: ‘Call off the dogs’

today (saturday 8th), 8.00-8.02am, 5.01-5.02pm, and 5.05-5.17pm, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by nick robinson and justin webb) and pm (presented by naga munchetty) lead with …

“The former shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna will make a speech this morning urging Jeremy Corbyn to. in his words, ‘call off the dogs’, and stop Labour MPs being targeted for criticising the party leadership. On Thursday, two MPs lost no-confidence votes held by their local parties.”

including contributions from …
• bbc reporter jonathan blake
• bbc reporter alex forsyth
• john mcdonnell mp
• john mann mp
• clive lewis mp