Broadcast

  • 7 July, 2009

    The Long View

    Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the past behind the present.

    Jonathan and his guests ask how governments can best help the unemployed and visit the site of a 1930s labour camp set up to 'recondition' unemployed men and prepare them for a return to work.

    Published by: BBC

  • 20 June, 2009

    This Week

    Jonathan Freedland looks back on another exciting week in Westminster where the Speaker said his goodbyes and MPs' expenses went public - well with a bit of blacking out here and there.

    Published by: BBC

  • 26 December, 2006

    Gimme Some Truth

    How the Bush administration is riding roughshod over the American Constitution, a piece commissioned by Yoko Ono for her Boxing Day special edition of BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

    Published by: BBC

  • 11 May, 2006

    Farewell to the West Wing

    Jonathan discusses the end of the cult US TV series on Radio 3's Nightwaves. The West Wing item is 20 minutes in.

    Published by: BBC

  • 10 March, 2006

    Newsnight Review

    Jonathan joins the Newsnight Review panel to debate Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky, Sinatra at the London Palladium, Nick Cave's The Proposition and a new TV documentary series on Harold Wilson...

    Published by: BBC

  • 11 October, 2005

    Long View - Autumn 2005 series

    Each week, The Long View, recorded on location throughout the British Isles, takes an issue from the current affairs agenda and finds a parallel in our past.

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    Published by: BBC

  • 7 October, 2005

    BBC Hard Talk

    In a Hardtalk Extra interview broadcast on Friday 7th October, Gavin Esler talks to Jonathan Freedland and David Baddiel.

    From the BBC site:

    One is a leading journalist, the other a well-known comedian, recently turned writer.

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    Published by: BBC

  • 27 March, 2005

    The Long View Listen Again

    You can listen to the latest edition of The Long View via the BBC's Listen Again facility.

    Published by: BBC

  • 27 March, 2005

    The Long View Special Edition

    Jonathan presents a special edition from Portugal, where he and his guests consider the international response to the Asian tsunami of 2004 and the Lisbon earthquake of 1755.

    Hear the programme on BBC Radio 4 on 29 March at 9am and 9.30pm or listen via the Read more...

    Published by: BBC

  • 18 March, 2005

    The Heaven and Earth Show

    Jonathan will be on The Heaven and Earth Show on BBC 1 at 10.30 am on Sunday March 20 -- presenting a short film about schools and the dilemmas of passing on identity to the next generation.

    Published by: BBC