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In a live, midweek edition of the programme, Michael Freedland and Ann Kaye report on talks in Vienna and how they might affect Soviet Jewish ‘refuseniks’, hearing from activist June Jacobs and Conservative peer Nicholas Bethell. They discuss Democratic gains in the US midterms with their man in Washington, Wolf Blitzer, and hear from Jerusalem correspondent, Asher Wallfish, about the birth of a daughter to the former Soviet Jewish prisoner, Anatoly Sharansky, and the revelations by the Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu. They also speak to Israel’s vice-premier, Yitzhak Navon, about Syria and to the French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann about his nine-hour documentary Shoah. There’s also a reminiscence about Jews in the armed forces and word of a new book: Is This Kosher? This is a programme from the Â鶹Éç archive, originally broadcast on Â鶹Éç Radio in the 1980s. Aspects of the programme reflect the time when it was made, the sound quality is at times poor and due to rights considerations, the music may be shorter than in the original programme.