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.

11 Oct 2005: Conservative party leadership elections
18 Oct 2005: Drink Licensing
25 Oct 2005: A Good Death
31 Oct 2005: Counter insurgency
08 Nov 2005: Surveillance and the Politics of the Watch

You can listen to the latest episode via the BBC's Listen Again service or tune in to BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday at 9am or for the repeat at 9.30pm.

Sadly, there is no podcast of the Long View, but the BBC Radio 4 site has updated its pages on the Long View

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.

Both are Jewish and have recently published books which seek to assess the issues - past and present - of being both Jewish and British.

You can watch the full interview