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You Don't Have To Be Jewish's Bar Mitzva

Michael Freedland celebrates the 13th birthday – the Bar Mitzva - of You Don’t Have To Be Jewish, with a look back at some of the programme’s golden moments.

Michael Freedland celebrates the 13th birthday – the Bar Mitzva - of You Don’t Have To Be Jewish, with a look back at some of the programme’s golden moments. Featuring the voices of Tony Benn, Menachem Begin, Barbra Streisand, Chaim Herzog, Yitzhak Navon, Elie Weisel, Mickey Katz, Joel Grey, Al Jolson – and Harold Wilson, explaining why he kissed Golda Meir.

This is a programme from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ archive, originally broadcast on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio in the 1980s. 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.

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22 minutes