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The Third Day 17 Mar 2012 | 01:02 am
In Chochana Boukhobza's moving novel, The Third Day, two cellists travel to Jerusalem for a concert. For Elisheva, this is above all an appointment with her past and the nightmares of the camps; for R...
The Long Road Home 12 Mar 2012 | 03:08 am
In The Long Road Home, Ben Shephard describes how for 8 million displaced persons the end of the Second World War didn't mean the end of their ordeal. Confronted by an entire continent starving and up...
The Food of Spain 10 Mar 2012 | 05:04 am
Claudia Roden talks about discoveries she made while researching her new book The Food of Spain. Until the mid 20th century 80 percent of the population in Spain lived and worked on the land which was...
Trieste 10 Mar 2012 | 12:14 am
The Croatian novelist talks about her first novel to be translated into English, Trieste, the story of a mother who has waited over sixty years to be reunited with the son who was stolen from her by t...
Get Real 10 Mar 2012 | 12:11 am
Oil companies advertise their green credentials. Billionaires orchestrate 'grassroots' political movements. Organic food is grown on vast industrial farms. Public spending cuts that target the poor ar...
Trouble Making Rabbis 29 Feb 2012 | 10:10 am
Navigating the boundaries of sacred and profane David Goldberg and Elli Sarah are two rabbis who have stuck by their convictions, approaching Judaism with boldness, passion and unfailing intellectual ...
That Woman 29 Feb 2012 | 12:10 am
Twenty five years after her death, Wallis Simpson exerts a more powerful fascination than ever. That Woman is the first full scale biography written by a woman about the Duchess of Windsor, one of the...
Taha Muhammad Ali 28 Feb 2012 | 11:59 am
Adina Hoffman's Jewish Quarterly-Wingate-Prize-winning biography of Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali is a moving account of the ways "ordinary" individuals are swept up by the floodtides of both war...
Portugal at War 28 Feb 2012 | 11:26 am
In Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light 1939-45, a gripping tale of high-stakes intrigue, betrayal, double-dealing, and survival, Neill Lochery tells the story of how Portugal, a relatively...
Masterclass 23 Feb 2012 | 09:39 am
Whether or not Robert Frost ever said it, just about everyone assumes that poetry is in fact what is lost in translation. MacArthur-winning poet and translator Peter Cole puts his head into the lion's...
