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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.

Listen to it here

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. Listen here.

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...

Click here to see it via the BBC website

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

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 BBC website

The Long View Listen Again

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

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.

The Long View returns- February 2005

The Long View returns to BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 22nd February. As the government prepares to introduce the national database and identity cards, the first episode of the new series considers the historical issues and implications around this very contemporary debate.

London, 1950 and wartime Identity Cards are still in force. When Clarence Willcock refuses to present his card to a police officer, it leads to a test case in the High Court. Judges ponder whether ID cards are an unnecessary intrusion into private life or a useful weapon in combatting crime.

Jonathan is joined by Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty, Martin Linton MP - who developed the prototype of the new biometric cards - and Peter Byrne, alias PC Andy Crawford in Dixon of Dock Green, to debate ID Cards in 1950's Britain and today

US Election- Online debate

Stretching the broadcast category somewhat, but take a look at Jonathan's live participation in The Guardian's online debate on the US Presidential election.

Discussion continues over on the Guardian talk pages...

The Long View- September 2004

Jonathan and guests go in search of the past behind the present, exploring a moment in history which illuminates a contemporary debate in his Radio 4 series The Long View

You can listen to the most recent edition of the Long View using the BBC's website

The programme is broacast for six weeks from the start at September each Tuesday morning at 09:30 and repeated that evening at 21:30.