The World This Weekend

February 18, 2021

Radio 4 ignores the BBC’s own clarification on Palestinian healthcare

As we have already seen, despite having acknowledged on its ‘corrections and clarifications’ pag...

May 25, 2020

BBC News reports from the Israeli courts it claimed are closed

In late March we noted that viewers of the BBC News channel had been wrongly informed that Israel’...

November 11, 2019

BBC WS radio framing of anti-Iran protests

World Service listeners get a blatantly one-sided view of Middle East events. ...

May 8, 2019

Islamic Jihad unravels BBC amplification of Hamas claim

With the BBC having already moved on, it is doubtful that audiences will ever be relieved of the ina...

April 18, 2018

BBC Radio 4 manages to report on Iran without the usual distractions

A BC Radio 4 programme highlights just how bad other reporting on Iran's activities in Syria has bee...

October 29, 2015

Terrorist? Motorist? It’s all the same to the BBC’s Kevin Connolly

As noted in a previous post, the October 18th edition of BBC Radio 4’s ‘The World This W...

October 29, 2015

Disturbing themes in BBC coverage of the wave of terror in Israel

After almost four weeks of BBC coverage of the current wave of terror attacks in Israel, the promote...

January 12, 2015

When R4 audiences got an on-air correction about Israel – but not from a BBC journalist

On January 11th the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘The World This Weekend’ focused entirely on t...