June Jacobs and Nicholas Bethell
Michael Freedland and Ann Kaye report on talks in Vienna speaking to activist June Jacobs and Conservative peer Nicholas Bethell.
In a live, midweek edition of the programme, Michael Freedland and Ann Kaye report on talks in Vienna and how they might affect Soviet Jewish 鈥榬efuseniks鈥�, hearing from activist June Jacobs and Conservative peer Nicholas Bethell. They discuss Democratic gains in the US midterms with their man in Washington, Wolf Blitzer, and hear from Jerusalem correspondent, Asher Wallfish, about the birth of a daughter to the former Soviet Jewish prisoner, Anatoly Sharansky, and the revelations by the Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu. They also speak to Israel鈥檚 vice-premier, Yitzhak Navon, about Syria and to the French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann about his nine-hour documentary Shoah. There鈥檚 also a reminiscence about Jews in the armed forces and word of a new book: Is This Kosher?
This is a programme from the 大象传媒 archive, originally broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio in the 1980s. Aspects of the programme reflect the time when it was made, the sound quality is at times poor and due to rights considerations, the music may be shorter than in the original programme.
