Danny Cohen, executive producer of Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama The Zone Of Interest, has said he “fundamentally disagrees” with the director’s politically-orientated Oscars acceptance speech.
Accepting the International Feature Oscar last Sunday, Glazer spoke at length and highlighted what he described as the shared ideology behind the film’s subject matter and contemporary world events.
“All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present — not to say, ‘Look what they did then,’ rather, ‘Look what we do now.’ Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It shaped all of our past and present,” Glazer said.
“Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation, which has led to conflict for so many innocent people. Whether the victims of October the. Whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza,...
Accepting the International Feature Oscar last Sunday, Glazer spoke at length and highlighted what he described as the shared ideology behind the film’s subject matter and contemporary world events.
“All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present — not to say, ‘Look what they did then,’ rather, ‘Look what we do now.’ Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It shaped all of our past and present,” Glazer said.
“Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation, which has led to conflict for so many innocent people. Whether the victims of October the. Whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza,...
- 3/15/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Zone of Interest” executive producer Danny Cohen has become the first member of the film’s production team to publicly address director Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech, saying “I just fundamentally disagree with Jonathan.”
While accepting the Academy Award on Sunday evening for best international film, Glazer delivered a set of pre-written remarks in which he compared his Holocaust film to the current conflict in Gaza. He was accompanied on stage by producer James Wilson and executive producer Len Blavatnik.
“All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, not to say look what they did then, but rather look what we do now,” he said, according to the Academy’s official transcript of the speech. “Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It’s shaped all of our past and present. Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness...
While accepting the Academy Award on Sunday evening for best international film, Glazer delivered a set of pre-written remarks in which he compared his Holocaust film to the current conflict in Gaza. He was accompanied on stage by producer James Wilson and executive producer Len Blavatnik.
“All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, not to say look what they did then, but rather look what we do now,” he said, according to the Academy’s official transcript of the speech. “Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It’s shaped all of our past and present. Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness...
- 3/15/2024
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: ITV is on the hunt for a Mr Bates vs the Post Office successor and has landed on the devastating contaminated blood scandal, with Peter Moffat attached.
Double-BAFTA winner Moffat is writing the untitled series based on what took place in the 1970s and 1980s, which ITV is describing as the “biggest health scandal in our history.”
The drama focuses on how haemophiliacs and those with other blood disorders were contaminated with tainted blood infecting them with HIV and hepatitis. In 2022, a report found that around 1,250 people with bleeding disorders were infected with HIV and that at least a further 2,400 people were infected with Hepatitis C. Around three-quarters of those infected with HIV died and at least 700 infected with Hepatitis C died, the report concluded. An inquiry took place last year with the likes of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak interviewed.
Drawing obvious comparisons with the post office series,...
Double-BAFTA winner Moffat is writing the untitled series based on what took place in the 1970s and 1980s, which ITV is describing as the “biggest health scandal in our history.”
The drama focuses on how haemophiliacs and those with other blood disorders were contaminated with tainted blood infecting them with HIV and hepatitis. In 2022, a report found that around 1,250 people with bleeding disorders were infected with HIV and that at least a further 2,400 people were infected with Hepatitis C. Around three-quarters of those infected with HIV died and at least 700 infected with Hepatitis C died, the report concluded. An inquiry took place last year with the likes of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak interviewed.
Drawing obvious comparisons with the post office series,...
- 2/22/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The Politics Weekly America team are taking a break. So for the next two weeks, we’re looking back at a couple of our favourite episodes of the year.
From August: Jonathan Freedland and Amanda Marcotte try to figure it out why rightwing politicians and pundits took such a disliking to Barbie, Greta Gerwig’s summer blockbuster. They look at what the outrage can tell us about how the Republicans will campaign in 2024
Archive: Fox News, NBC, The Ben Shapiro Show...
From August: Jonathan Freedland and Amanda Marcotte try to figure it out why rightwing politicians and pundits took such a disliking to Barbie, Greta Gerwig’s summer blockbuster. They look at what the outrage can tell us about how the Republicans will campaign in 2024
Archive: Fox News, NBC, The Ben Shapiro Show...
- 12/22/2023
- by Presented by Jonathan Freedland, with Amanda Marcotte, produced by Danielle Stephens and the executive producer is Maz Ebtehaj
- The Guardian - Film News
Moviegoers flocked to cinemas last weekend for the highly anticipated release of two of the year’s biggest movies – Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. But conservatives have slated Barbie for being, among other things, too ‘woke’, anti-men and even … Chinese propaganda.
Is the outrage real or is it just another example of politics employing a culture war to rally the base? Jonathan Freedland and Amanda Marcotte try to figure it out
Archive: Fox News, NBC, The Ben Shapiro Show...
Is the outrage real or is it just another example of politics employing a culture war to rally the base? Jonathan Freedland and Amanda Marcotte try to figure it out
Archive: Fox News, NBC, The Ben Shapiro Show...
- 7/28/2023
- by Presented by Jonathan Freedland, with Amanda Marcotte, produced by Danielle Stephens, and the executive producer is Maz Ebtehaj
- The Guardian - Film News
“Silk” screenwriter Peter Moffat is adapting Jonathan Freedland’s non-fiction book “The Escape Artist,” which tells the true story of two Jews who escaped from Auschwitz.
Margery Bone’s Bonafide Films has secured the rights to Freedland’s book, which is set to be made into a high-end limited series. Bonafide, who have a development and distribution deal with BBC Studios, recently produced Nicôle Lecky’s BAFTA-winning “Mood.”
“The Escape Artist” centers around nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba, a Slovakian Jew who manages to escape Auschwitz alongside fellow internee Fred Wetzler, and warn the world about what was happening. Their actions saved the lives of at least 200,000 Jews who were facing immediate deportation from Budapest to the world’s most notorious death camp.
“This is a story of how human beings can be pushed to the outer limits, and yet still somehow endure,” said Freeland. “How the actions of one individual, even a teenage boy,...
Margery Bone’s Bonafide Films has secured the rights to Freedland’s book, which is set to be made into a high-end limited series. Bonafide, who have a development and distribution deal with BBC Studios, recently produced Nicôle Lecky’s BAFTA-winning “Mood.”
“The Escape Artist” centers around nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba, a Slovakian Jew who manages to escape Auschwitz alongside fellow internee Fred Wetzler, and warn the world about what was happening. Their actions saved the lives of at least 200,000 Jews who were facing immediate deportation from Budapest to the world’s most notorious death camp.
“This is a story of how human beings can be pushed to the outer limits, and yet still somehow endure,” said Freeland. “How the actions of one individual, even a teenage boy,...
- 7/13/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Peter Moffat is forging a TV adaptation of UK journalist Jonathan Freedland’s The Escape Artist with Mood production outfit Bonafide Films.
The Your Honor and Criminal Justice BAFTA winner is onboard to write the show telling the astonishing, true-life story of how Rudolf Vrba, a 19-year-old Slovakian Jew, along with fellow inmate Fred Wetzler, escaped from Auschwitz to warn the world about the Holocaust. The pair’s report led to the saving of 200,000 Budapest Jews from immediate deportation to Auschwitz. The project is not yet attached to a network and Bonafide has secured rights for TV.
Freedland is a highly-regarded British journalist who mainly writes on politics and international affairs for The Guardian but has also penned numerous works of fiction, some of which are under the pseudonym Sam Bourne.
Margery Bone’s London-based Bonafide has previously worked with Moffat on BBC drama The Last Post, which starred Jessie Buckley...
The Your Honor and Criminal Justice BAFTA winner is onboard to write the show telling the astonishing, true-life story of how Rudolf Vrba, a 19-year-old Slovakian Jew, along with fellow inmate Fred Wetzler, escaped from Auschwitz to warn the world about the Holocaust. The pair’s report led to the saving of 200,000 Budapest Jews from immediate deportation to Auschwitz. The project is not yet attached to a network and Bonafide has secured rights for TV.
Freedland is a highly-regarded British journalist who mainly writes on politics and international affairs for The Guardian but has also penned numerous works of fiction, some of which are under the pseudonym Sam Bourne.
Margery Bone’s London-based Bonafide has previously worked with Moffat on BBC drama The Last Post, which starred Jessie Buckley...
- 7/13/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The New York Times Book Review is taking heat over an interview in Sunday’s issue in which “The Color Purple” author Alice Walker expressed her admiration for a book by the British conspiracy theorist David Icke that has been called anti-Semitic.
“The book is an unhinged anti-Semitic conspiracy tract written by one of Britain’s most notorious anti-Semites,” writer Yair Rosenberg wrote in a piece for Tablet Magazine in which he chided the Times for allowing Walker’s praise for Ickes’ “And the Truth Shall Set You Free” without any further comment to go unchallenged.
“Anti-Semitism is not incidental to Icke’s book, it is essential. It is impossible to miss it,” Rosenberg wrote, noting that Ickes widely quotes anti-Semitic tracts like the notorious “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and suggests that Holocaust denial could be a legitimate point of view to be taught in schools. “This is...
“The book is an unhinged anti-Semitic conspiracy tract written by one of Britain’s most notorious anti-Semites,” writer Yair Rosenberg wrote in a piece for Tablet Magazine in which he chided the Times for allowing Walker’s praise for Ickes’ “And the Truth Shall Set You Free” without any further comment to go unchallenged.
“Anti-Semitism is not incidental to Icke’s book, it is essential. It is impossible to miss it,” Rosenberg wrote, noting that Ickes widely quotes anti-Semitic tracts like the notorious “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and suggests that Holocaust denial could be a legitimate point of view to be taught in schools. “This is...
- 12/17/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
Ahead of the Academy Awards, Jonathan Freedland celebrates Steven Spielberg’s timely tale of press freedom
For a man who is the world’s most successful film-maker, Steven Spielberg has a remarkably thin record at the Oscars. Of course, this points to the perennial Spielberg debate: is his accomplishment chiefly commercial, measured in box-office receipts, rather than artistic? Are his films bankable and crowdpleasing rather than great? Among those who take the former view, the fact that a director first nominated by the Academy 40 years ago – for Close Encounters of the Third Kind – has only won the best picture prize once (for Schindler’s List), is a critical piece of evidence. Sure, he has been nominated often and been named best director twice (for Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan), but in a career as long and lucrative as his, those look like relatively slim pickings.
In truth, that...
For a man who is the world’s most successful film-maker, Steven Spielberg has a remarkably thin record at the Oscars. Of course, this points to the perennial Spielberg debate: is his accomplishment chiefly commercial, measured in box-office receipts, rather than artistic? Are his films bankable and crowdpleasing rather than great? Among those who take the former view, the fact that a director first nominated by the Academy 40 years ago – for Close Encounters of the Third Kind – has only won the best picture prize once (for Schindler’s List), is a critical piece of evidence. Sure, he has been nominated often and been named best director twice (for Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan), but in a career as long and lucrative as his, those look like relatively slim pickings.
In truth, that...
- 2/23/2018
- by Jonathan Freedland
- The Guardian - Film News
Slumdog Millionaire director aims to film real life story of 'Pink Panther' jewel robbers
• Jonathan Freedland meets Danny Boyle
• Danny Boyle on Philip French
Danny Boyle is getting back in the heist game. The Oscar-winning British director is set to shoot a feature adaptation of a recently released documentary about the world's most successful gang of diamond thieves.
Boyle, whose art theft thriller Trance hit cinemas earlier this year, will base his new project on the film Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers. Havana Marking's documentary centres on a crew of Balkan thieves who became notorious over more than a decade of activity. Reviewing the film in the Guardian last month, critic Mike McCahill described it as a documentary which "pursues its subject from multiple angles, quizzing reporters, cops and sometime gang members, while carefully marshalled archive frames a deeper sociopolitical inquiry".
Marking's film should give...
• Jonathan Freedland meets Danny Boyle
• Danny Boyle on Philip French
Danny Boyle is getting back in the heist game. The Oscar-winning British director is set to shoot a feature adaptation of a recently released documentary about the world's most successful gang of diamond thieves.
Boyle, whose art theft thriller Trance hit cinemas earlier this year, will base his new project on the film Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers. Havana Marking's documentary centres on a crew of Balkan thieves who became notorious over more than a decade of activity. Reviewing the film in the Guardian last month, critic Mike McCahill described it as a documentary which "pursues its subject from multiple angles, quizzing reporters, cops and sometime gang members, while carefully marshalled archive frames a deeper sociopolitical inquiry".
Marking's film should give...
- 10/7/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
We've been indoctrinated to regard the NHS with such superstitious awe that we never stop to examine its maladies
Last Saturday's Guardian ran two articles that made a fascinating if unhappy contrast. Danny Boyle was interviewed about, among other things, his Olympics opening ceremony last summer, with its nurses holding up NHS placards and "bouncing children on NHS beds". Then one could turn to Roger Taylor's outstanding long essay entitled We love the NHS too much to make it better.
Well before reading Taylor, I had been thinking again about the opening ceremony, and wondering how it must have felt watching that mawkish pageant if you had been one of the victims – one of the survivors, that is – of Stafford hospital. Is it possible that some degree of embarrassment about the egregious failings of this health service that we love too much explains why the full, almost indescribable horror...
Last Saturday's Guardian ran two articles that made a fascinating if unhappy contrast. Danny Boyle was interviewed about, among other things, his Olympics opening ceremony last summer, with its nurses holding up NHS placards and "bouncing children on NHS beds". Then one could turn to Roger Taylor's outstanding long essay entitled We love the NHS too much to make it better.
Well before reading Taylor, I had been thinking again about the opening ceremony, and wondering how it must have felt watching that mawkish pageant if you had been one of the victims – one of the survivors, that is – of Stafford hospital. Is it possible that some degree of embarrassment about the egregious failings of this health service that we love too much explains why the full, almost indescribable horror...
- 3/13/2013
- by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
- The Guardian - Film News
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
The big story
We tried. Oh God, how we tried. But, like an army of zombies in the night, Skyfall just keeps coming. No matter how hard you stick your fingers in your ears, however loud you screech "La-la-la" - it won't be denied. There's only one game in town this week, and it's wearing a dapper tuxedo. The premiere on Tuesday night lured scores of celebrity faces to the Albert Hall while the film's actors – Daniel Craig and Naomie Harris among them – talked about what it was like cavorting for Sam Mendes.
Mendes himself mentioned he wouldn't be averse to doing another 007 film, if he was asked back, while Guy Lodge examined in detail Skyfall's awesome way with product placement and marketing.
We even had room for Jonathan Freedland's amusing account of his
regular trips to get his Bond fix,...
The big story
We tried. Oh God, how we tried. But, like an army of zombies in the night, Skyfall just keeps coming. No matter how hard you stick your fingers in your ears, however loud you screech "La-la-la" - it won't be denied. There's only one game in town this week, and it's wearing a dapper tuxedo. The premiere on Tuesday night lured scores of celebrity faces to the Albert Hall while the film's actors – Daniel Craig and Naomie Harris among them – talked about what it was like cavorting for Sam Mendes.
Mendes himself mentioned he wouldn't be averse to doing another 007 film, if he was asked back, while Guy Lodge examined in detail Skyfall's awesome way with product placement and marketing.
We even had room for Jonathan Freedland's amusing account of his
regular trips to get his Bond fix,...
- 10/25/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
'Ian Fleming's novels offer the opportunity to glimpse, even to revel in, how things used to be before progress and equality spoiled all the fun'
Some staples of our common culture are so established, so embedded in the collective consciousness, we think we know them even if we don't. Everyone knows Shakespeare, Dickens or the Beatles, even if they haven't seen one of the plays, read the books or played the music in years, if ever. They somehow linger in the air, ready to be imbibed as if by osmosis.
So it is with James Bond, perhaps the single best-known literary character of the 20th century. Everyone thinks they know James Bond. The terms – M, 007, licence to kill – have not just entered the English language, they are part of a global common currency, readily understood across the planet. When Danny Boyle sought to project Britain to the global...
Some staples of our common culture are so established, so embedded in the collective consciousness, we think we know them even if we don't. Everyone knows Shakespeare, Dickens or the Beatles, even if they haven't seen one of the plays, read the books or played the music in years, if ever. They somehow linger in the air, ready to be imbibed as if by osmosis.
So it is with James Bond, perhaps the single best-known literary character of the 20th century. Everyone thinks they know James Bond. The terms – M, 007, licence to kill – have not just entered the English language, they are part of a global common currency, readily understood across the planet. When Danny Boyle sought to project Britain to the global...
- 9/28/2012
- by Jonathan Freedland
- The Guardian - Film News
John Frankenheimer's 1962 film also tells the story of a 'turned' soldier, but it took a drawn-out war in the Middle East to make revisiting the possibility in a Us TV drama worthwhile
At any one time there will always be a TV drama that everyone is talking about, and just at the moment it's the American show Homeland, a paranoid soap opera about a Us Marine Corps sergeant who is sensationally discovered by American forces walled up in a dungeon in Baghdad having heroically defied his captors for eight years. He is brought home to the United States, an instant hero. But a psychologically troubled and overworked CIA agent has a hunch that this man has in fact been "turned" by al-Qaida, and that this all-American wonderboy is now a sleeper agent biding his time, using his celebrity to insinuate himself back into the military machine at a higher level,...
At any one time there will always be a TV drama that everyone is talking about, and just at the moment it's the American show Homeland, a paranoid soap opera about a Us Marine Corps sergeant who is sensationally discovered by American forces walled up in a dungeon in Baghdad having heroically defied his captors for eight years. He is brought home to the United States, an instant hero. But a psychologically troubled and overworked CIA agent has a hunch that this man has in fact been "turned" by al-Qaida, and that this all-American wonderboy is now a sleeper agent biding his time, using his celebrity to insinuate himself back into the military machine at a higher level,...
- 3/7/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
From Piers Morgan to Polly Toynbee, Jemima Khan to Jarvis Cocker – David Cameron takes questions from public figures who want answers
Hear what the Pm has to say in our audio interactive
David Mitchell, comedian
Do you wish you were less posh?
"[Laughs] No. You can't change who you are. For a long time I thought my full name was 'The Old Etonian David Cameron'. I had parents who gave me a wonderful start in life, who sacrificed a lot to give me a great education. So I don't ever want to change – I don't want to drop my accent or change my vowels. I am who I am."
Piers Morgan, TV presenter
If you could relive one moment in your life, excluding births of children and marriage, what would it be?
"God, that's a really good question. Piers, why don't you ever ask really good questions like that normally? I...
Hear what the Pm has to say in our audio interactive
David Mitchell, comedian
Do you wish you were less posh?
"[Laughs] No. You can't change who you are. For a long time I thought my full name was 'The Old Etonian David Cameron'. I had parents who gave me a wonderful start in life, who sacrificed a lot to give me a great education. So I don't ever want to change – I don't want to drop my accent or change my vowels. I am who I am."
Piers Morgan, TV presenter
If you could relive one moment in your life, excluding births of children and marriage, what would it be?
"God, that's a really good question. Piers, why don't you ever ask really good questions like that normally? I...
- 11/26/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Joining Jonathan Freedland for the latest edition of The week in review is Hugh Muir, Libby Brooks and the comedian David Schneider.
We begin by discussing the resignation of David Cameron's communications chief Andy Coulson. What does this mean for the prime minister, the Conservatives and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation? Matt Wells gives us his thoughts.
Also in the podcast, with Tony Blair back in front of the Iraq inquiry and Gordon Brown's former lieutenant Ed Balls given the job of shadow chancellor, we wonder why the shadows of the Blair-Brown past continue to hang over the Labour party?
Away from that all that, we talk Tiger Mothers, cuddly fathers, and the government's plans to teach us the basic principles of parenting.
Finally, some have said he was hilarious while others claim he was just plain rude. We discuss the comedy of nastiness after Ricky Gervais performed a...
We begin by discussing the resignation of David Cameron's communications chief Andy Coulson. What does this mean for the prime minister, the Conservatives and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation? Matt Wells gives us his thoughts.
Also in the podcast, with Tony Blair back in front of the Iraq inquiry and Gordon Brown's former lieutenant Ed Balls given the job of shadow chancellor, we wonder why the shadows of the Blair-Brown past continue to hang over the Labour party?
Away from that all that, we talk Tiger Mothers, cuddly fathers, and the government's plans to teach us the basic principles of parenting.
Finally, some have said he was hilarious while others claim he was just plain rude. We discuss the comedy of nastiness after Ricky Gervais performed a...
- 1/21/2011
- by Jonathan Freedland, Ben Green, Libby Brooks, Hugh Muir, Matt Wells
- The Guardian - Film News
That was the week in which Colin Firth was crowned best actor at the Golden Globes, Bafta lavished 14 nominations on the film … and we asked you to send us your questions for The King's Speech director Tom Hooper
The King's Speech reigns
Not a bad week, then, for Tom Hooper's stuttery monarch drama. On Monday it picks up a Golden Globe best actor award for Colin Firth. On Tuesday, Bafta gives it nominations in almost every single category, and it's revealed it's actually growing at the UK box office. On Wednesday Jonathan Freedland's article about it becomes the most read on the entire site and on Thursday it's announced that Guardian readers will have the chance to quiz Hooper for a live webchat on Friday lunchtime. There was some bad news, of course - Screen Yorkshire, the regional funding body which oiled the wheels of the shoot, announced...
The King's Speech reigns
Not a bad week, then, for Tom Hooper's stuttery monarch drama. On Monday it picks up a Golden Globe best actor award for Colin Firth. On Tuesday, Bafta gives it nominations in almost every single category, and it's revealed it's actually growing at the UK box office. On Wednesday Jonathan Freedland's article about it becomes the most read on the entire site and on Thursday it's announced that Guardian readers will have the chance to quiz Hooper for a live webchat on Friday lunchtime. There was some bad news, of course - Screen Yorkshire, the regional funding body which oiled the wheels of the shoot, announced...
- 1/20/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
The man behind the most popular British film in recent memory will be live online answering your questions this Friday lunchtime
More has been written about The King's Speech on this site than any other film in recent memory. The appetite for King's Speech discussion seems insatiable (Jonathan Freedland's blog on the film was the most-read on the whole site yesterday). Why? Well, partly because more of you have seen it then any other British film lately. Partly because it's an endlessly fascinating film. But what have we missed? What hasn't been discussed in relation to the film?
Now you've got your chance to pose those questions to Tom Hooper, director of The King's Speech. This Friday lunchtime, he'll be live online answering as many of your questions as he can get through. Perhaps you'd like to ask him what he thinks of the praise and attention lavished on the film.
More has been written about The King's Speech on this site than any other film in recent memory. The appetite for King's Speech discussion seems insatiable (Jonathan Freedland's blog on the film was the most-read on the whole site yesterday). Why? Well, partly because more of you have seen it then any other British film lately. Partly because it's an endlessly fascinating film. But what have we missed? What hasn't been discussed in relation to the film?
Now you've got your chance to pose those questions to Tom Hooper, director of The King's Speech. This Friday lunchtime, he'll be live online answering as many of your questions as he can get through. Perhaps you'd like to ask him what he thinks of the praise and attention lavished on the film.
- 1/20/2011
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Welcome to the The week in review, the Guardian's new podcast looking back on the biggest news stories of the past seven days.
For this first show, Jonathan Freedland is joined in the studio by the writer and broadcaster Jon Ronson, the comedian Josie Long and the Guardian's legal affairs correspondent, Afua Hirsch. They begin by discussing the debate over extreme rhetoric in America, and ask, in the wake of the Arizona shootings, is the Tea Party now over for the likes of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck as the nation searches for a kinder, gentler political conversation?
Also in the podcast, the panel examines the case of Mark Kennedy, the secret policeman who apparently had a ball – working undercover as an eco-protester, and apparently regarding multiple affairs as part of the job description.
Finally, with the new James Bond film at last given the green light, we look forward...
For this first show, Jonathan Freedland is joined in the studio by the writer and broadcaster Jon Ronson, the comedian Josie Long and the Guardian's legal affairs correspondent, Afua Hirsch. They begin by discussing the debate over extreme rhetoric in America, and ask, in the wake of the Arizona shootings, is the Tea Party now over for the likes of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck as the nation searches for a kinder, gentler political conversation?
Also in the podcast, the panel examines the case of Mark Kennedy, the secret policeman who apparently had a ball – working undercover as an eco-protester, and apparently regarding multiple affairs as part of the job description.
Finally, with the new James Bond film at last given the green light, we look forward...
- 1/14/2011
- by Jonathan Freedland, Ben Green, Afua Hirsch, Josie Long, Jon Ronson
- The Guardian - Film News
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