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Radio 4,09 Feb 2026,28 mins

Series Israel and the Palestinians

1: From Earliest Times to the Romans

How Did We Get Here?

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In the first of ten programmes examining the origins and tracing the history of the Middle East conflict, presenter Jonny Dymond is joined by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Professor in Ancient History at Cardiff University, and historian and author Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of 鈥楯erusalem: The Biography鈥. They discuss the value of the Bible as a guide to history, the concept of a 鈥減romised land鈥, the archaeological record of the various peoples who lived in the region in ancient times, the coming of the Romans, and the Jewish revolts against them in the First and Second Centuries AD. 'How Did We Get Here? Israel and the Palestinians' is a 麻豆社 News Long Form Audio production. The presenter is Jonny Dymond and the editor is Penny Murphy. The Radio 4 commissioners are Hugh Levinson and Dan Clarke. The studio engineers are Neil Churchill, James Beard, Rod Farquhar, Mike Regaard and David Crackles.

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