Hitchcock & Bernstein: Live Performance and Panel Discussion
Four acclaimed actors – Henry Goodman, Kerry Shale, Geoffrey Streatfeild and Fenella Woolgar – perform a live staged reading of Martin Jameson’s powerful radio play The Film, bringing to life the extraordinary story behind one of the most important cinematic records of the Holocaust. April 1945: a Ministry of Information film crew enters Bergen-Belsen to document […]
HRT: Everything Your Mother Didn’t Tell You
Navigating the menopause can feel overwhelming amid so much conflicting information. Dr Ellie Cannon’s The Little Book of HRT is an accessible, engaging guide that goes far beyond what a short GP visit can cover. A practising GP, Mail on Sunday health columnist and regular on-screen doctor for BBC Breakfast, ITV and Channel 5, she […]
The Relativity of Death: Kabbalah of Information, the Book and the Music
Scientist, entrepreneur and Kabbalah scholar Eduard Shyfrin PhD introduces The Relativity of Death, Part I and discusses how Jewish mysticism has shaped an unexpected new chapter in his life in music. A pioneer of the “Kabbalah of Information”, his search for meaning led him back to the music of his childhood and ultimately to composing […]
The Dark Side of the Kindertransport
Bringing 10,000 unaccompanied German and Austrian children to Britain in 1939, the Kindertransport has long been a source of national pride. Recent research has uncovered an inconvenient truth: many children suffered abuse, estrangement and forced conversions to Christianity. Read Between the Lines focuses on Martha Braun; taken from her loving Hamburg family into a Manchester […]
Faith, Sex & Daring: An Orthodox Insight
What happens if one refuses to choose between abandoning their roots and abandoning themselves? Yehudis Fletcher, daughter of a rabbi raised in an Orthodox Jewish community, felt fenced in by arbitrary rules and unanswered questions. Growing up, repeatedly let down by those meant to protect her and with her sexuality at odds with family expectations, […]
Tales of Love from the Therapy Couch
Why do we struggle with love? Drawing on four decades of candid conversations with patients, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz asks what gets in the way of falling in love — and what it takes to stay there. The Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of The Examined Life returns withLove’s Labour: luminous, essential stories from the consulting […]
Heroism & Rebirth in Nazi Europe
An unlikely team of parachutists drop into Nazi Europe. A great adventure? An act of madness? An elaborate suicide? In Out of the Sky, Matti Friedman unravels one of the Second World War’s strangest episodes: an operation serving two masters hostile to each other, carried out by young women and men who, having escaped the […]
Children of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together
Ilana Kurshan, in conversation with Adam Taub, invites listeners into the book-lined home she has built with her family, where reading aloud nurtures wonder, soothes squabbles, and helps make sense of life’s daily rhythms. She reflects on how literature and Torah intertwine in her family’s life, and how both reading and parenting are acts of […]
From Pray to Play: The Birth of Hebrew Children’s Literature
How do you teach young children to read Hebrew when the only available texts are biblical? And how do you create a Hebrew-speaking kindergarten without a single children’s song or holiday tune? In this richly illustrated session, Dorit Gani – veteran Reference Librarian at the National Library of Israel and an avid researcher of child […]
Family, Exile & Food: Middle Eastern Stories
Stella Darvey Joory and Linda Dangoor join Lyn Julius for a rich conversation on heritage, exile and the worlds we carry with us. In Rachel: A Life in a Turbulent Century, Joory reconstructs her mother’s remarkable journey from Damascus to Baghdad and beyond, tracing the seismic political upheavals that reshaped Middle Eastern Jewish life. Dangoor’s From the Tigris […]
The Future of Liberal Democracy
As political polarisation widens and populist movements gain ground on both sides of the Atlantic, long-standing assumptions about liberal democracy are being tested. This panel brings together Michael Gove, former Cabinet minister and now editor of The Spectator; Richard Hurowitz, publisher of The Octavian Report and author of In the Garden of the Righteous; and […]
The Thinking Heart: David Grossman Speaks with Rosie Goldsmith About his Work
What does enduring conflict do to a person’s soul and to the spirit of a nation? Internationally bestselling Israeli writer David Grossman has spent decades campaigning for peace. In The Thinking Heart he asks difficult, necessary questions of his beloved nation after 7 October: How could this massacre occur? How could the Netanyahu government fail […]