TIYL: Nicholas Winton

yesterday evening (tuesday 9th), 9.00-9.30pm (repeated from may 2003), on bbc 4 tv  

sir nicholas winton (presented by michael aspel) (episode 14, series 43, in the this is your life series) 

“Michael Aspel awards the big red book to Nicholas Winton, the humanitarian who helped to save hundreds of Jewish children from the Nazis in 1939 Prague.”

including interview with …       

• alice klimova

• craig stapleton, former us ambassador to czech republic

• vera gissing 1928-2022, author, pearls of childhood

• alf dubs1932-

• theresa may mp

• esther rantzen

• joe schlesinger

T: Gaza 17/10/2023

this morning (tuesday 17th), 6.01-6.04am, 6.08-6.09am,6.32-6.38am, 6.41-6.43am, 6.44-6.53am, 7.00-7.03am, 7.09-7.14am, 7.31-7.42am, 8.00-8.03am, 8.10-8.22am, and 8.35-8.42am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by martha kearney and nick robinson) leads with …

“US President to visit Israel in ‘solidarity’.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter david willis

• bbc reporter yolande knell

• bbc reporter james landale

• bbc reporter sean curran

• rishi sunak mp

• keir starmer mp

• stephen flynn mp

• theresa may mp

• alicia kearns mp

• leila moran mp

• richard burgon mp

• mohsen sarhan, egyptian food bank

• juliette touma, unrwa

• bbc reporter lyse doucet

• gen david petraeus

• bbc reporter jeremy bowen

• andrew mitchell mp

• journalist shashank joshi

YIP: May on Corbyn

last thursday morning (11th july), 8.39-8.42am, on bbc radio 4 

yesterday in parliament (presented by sean curran) includes …

“Angry exchanges at PMQs as Theresa May criticises Jeremy Corbyn over his handling of anti-Semitism allegations in the Labour Party”

Today/W@1: Williamson not suspended

yesterday morning (wednesday 27th), 8.04-8.05am (repeated from 6.01am and 7.01am), and 1.04-1.05pm and 1.20-1.26pm, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by nick robinson and mishal husain) and world at one (presented by edward stourton) include …

“A staunch ally of Jeremy Corbyn has been filmed telling left-wing activists the party has been too apologetic over anti-semitism within the party. The footage of the Labour MP Chris Williamson at a Momentum event in Sheffield is understood to have been recorded last week, after 8 Labour MPs quit the party because of Brexit and anti-semitism.”

including contributions from …
• bbc reporter jonathan blake
• bbc reporter norman smith
• margaret hodge mp
• tony lloyd mp

W@1: Labour anti-semitism

this afternoon (wednesday 5th), 1.19-1.28pm, and 1.32-1.35pm, on bbc radio 4
world at one (presented by sarah montague) includes …

“Labour’s anti-semitism row rambles on. Ian Austin, the MP under investigation by the party for complaining of anti-semitism, tells us he thinks he’s been deliberately targeted for speaking out on the issue.“

including contributions from …
• ian austin mp
• stephen bush of the new statesman
• peter dowd mp

W@1: May vs Kerry

this afternoon (friday 30th), 1.17-1.20pm, on bbc radio 4
world at one (presented by shaun ley) includes …

“This provoked a rebuke from Downing Street, which said that it was not appropriate for Mr Kerry to criticise the composition of another country’s government “

including interview with …
• foreign affairs select committee chairman crispin blunt
(if you missed it, available from 0:17:00 to 0:20:30 at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b085hs88#playt=17m)

PMQ: Labour anti-semitism

yesterday morning (thursday 20th), 12.09-12.10am, on bbc parliament tv
prime minister’s questions includes …

“Oliver Dowden (Hertsmere) (C):
… does the Prime Minister also agree that we must ensure that all parties do not allow a situation to arise in which it appears that an environment is created where anti-Semitism is tolerated?
The Prime Minister:
… I have been concerned about the rise in the number of incidents of anti-Semitism in this country.
… I say to the Leader of the Opposition that given the report of the Home Affairs Committee about anti-Semitism and the approach to anti-Semitism in the Labour party, he needs to think very carefully about the environment that has been created in the Labour party in relation to anti-Semitism.”