400th Programme Highlights

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In a special programme to mark the 400th edition of You Don't Have To Be Jewish, Michael Freedland recalls the highlights of the previous decade, from Israel’s peace accord with Egypt to his own encounters with Soviet Jews yearning to emigrate. He speaks to former prime ministers Harold Wilson and Golda Meir, comedy legends George Burns and Mickey Katz, British politician Airey Neave, Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, songwriter Sammy Cahn and many more. This is a programme from the BBC archive, originally broadcast on BBC Radio in the 1970s. Aspects of the programme reflect the time when it was made and due to rights considerations, the music may be shorter than in the original programme.