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THE Radio Times had me dancing with delight last week when it promised two very personal but very different radio essays - one in verse from a rock singer, the other in prose from a playwright.
Sadly, one fell foul of the taste police. David Hare's meditation on Israel's so-called Peace Wall coincided with the Pope's visit to that country's Holocaust Memorial and was pulled from last Monday's schedules. It "could have suggested a polemical intention", said the Beeb. Hare, whose wife is Jewish but who has angered the Israelis in the past over his support for the Palestinians, must be fuming.See the full content of this document
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Return to Sender? No, Bono's Poem Is Rather Good
Which left me with Elvis By Bono (BBC Radio 4, Wednesday, 11pm), a poem about The King by the U2 singer. N...
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