Of Places & People, Art & Literature
Speakers: Alba Arikha, Janet Wolf Alba Arikha and Janet Wolff present their stunning and idiosyncratic coming-of-age memoirs, exploring their family backgrounds, from post-war Manchester to 1980s Paris. They write of lives intellectually and emotionally enriched by those they encounter – in person, on canvas or through books – among them the leading thinkers, artists and […]
In Therapy: 50 Minutes on the Couch with Susie Orbach
Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the publication of Fat is a Feminist Issue, pioneering therapist Susie Orbach presents the extended new edition of the case histories that inspired her recent Radio 4 series In Therapy. She reveals as much about what is going on in the mind of the person behind the couch as […]
Israel at 70
Speakers: Yael Dayan, Adam Le Bor, Tom Phillipe, Daniel Goldman, Yaacav Yadgar Peace with the Palestinians remains elusive but, given soaring economic disparity, the widening gulf between secular, moderately religious and ultra-Orthodox, the increasingly vocal Arab minority, and the further splintering of consensus between far-left and far-right, does the real threat come from within? Our […]
Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews In Palastine and Israel, 1917-2017
Speakers: Daniella Peled, Ian Black Ian Black draws on four decades of experience as a Middle East correspondent steeped in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to present a gripping narrative of 100 years of the history of the region, originating in Lord Balfour’s oblique 67-word promise of a homeland for the Jewish people, through to the challenges […]
American Jews: Settlers and Sceptics
Speakers: Sara Hirschhorn, Dov Waxman, Michael Goldfarb In City on a Hilltop, Sara Hirschhorn tackles the much-contested American settler movement. Over 60,000 Jewish-Americans have settled in the territories since 1967. Who are they, and why did they chose to leave America to live at the centre of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? In Trouble in the Tribe […]
Bibliotherapy
Speakers: Viv Groskop, Laura Freeman, Alex Clark Viv Groskop in her luminous The Anna Karenina Fix, finds the answers to life’s burning questions in the great Russian novels. Not sure what to do with your love life? Turn to Tolstoy. Suffering from unrequited love? Turgenev can help. Are you socially awkward? Chekhov has the answers. […]
From Things Lost
Speakers: Shirli Gibert, Yitzchak Mayer Professor Shirli Gibert and Ambassador Yitzchak Mayer discuss their new books, stories of memory and survival told through letters. Chaired by Jenni Frazer.
Transitions
Speakers: Yael Dayan, Janet Suzman Yael Dayan, daughter of the legendary Moshe Dayan, looks back at her life as a fierce and eloquent activist and influential politician. Chaired by Janet Suzman.
Travellers In the Third Reich
Speakers: Julia Boyd, Anne Sebba During the 1920s and 1930s, German tourism was booming, particularly among Americans and the British. Attracted by the scenery, the food, the culture, and the favourable exchange rates, they also came to witness the rise of Hitler. Julia Boyd’s book, including extracts from her mother’s 1938 diary, offers an exceptional […]
The Future of War
Speakers: Lawrence Freedman, John Simpson, Richard Norton-Taylor Lawrence Freedman who is an authority on war and warfare, past and present, and consultant to governments on conflict, is joined by the BBC World Affairs editor and foreign correspondent, John Simpson, to investigate how past conflicts inform the present and future of war, weapons, security and strategy. […]
Brit(ish): on Race, identity and Belonging
You’re British. Your parents are British. You were raised in Britain. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British. So why do people keep asking where you are from? In this personal and provocative investigation, Afua Hirsch explores a very British crisis of identity. We are convinced that fairness is one of […]
War and the Death of News
Speakers: Martin Bell, Oliver Kamm ‘Grade B Reporter’, Martin Bell, has covered major international conflicts, from Vietnam to Bosnia, from Northern Ireland to the Six-Day War and Iraq. One of the outstanding journalists of our times, he provides a moving, personal account of the travesties of war and issues an impassioned call to put the […]