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Authored Books

Parfitt, Tudor (2008) The Lost Ark of the Covenant: The Remarkable Quest for the Legendary Ark. London/New York: Harper Collins.

Parfitt, Tudor and Egorova, Yulia (2005) Genetics, Mass Media, and Identity: A Case Study of the Genetic Research on the Lemba and Bene Israel. London: Routledge.

Parfitt, Tudor and Trevisan Semi, Emanuela (2002) Judaising Movements: Studies in the Margins of Judaism. London: Routledge.

Parfitt, Tudor (2002) The Lost Tribes of Israel: the History of a Myth. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

Parfitt, Tudor (2000) Journey to the Vanished City: the Search for a Lost Tribe of Israel. New York: Ramdon House.

Parfitt, Tudor (1996) The Road to Redemption: The Jews of the Yemen 1900-1950. Leiden: Brill. (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies vol. XVII)

Parfitt, Tudor (1988) The Jews of Arab Countries and Iran: A Survey. London: Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

Parfitt, Tudor (1987) The Jews in Palestine, 1800-1882. Woodbridge: Published for the Royal Historical Society by Boydell. (Royal Historical Society studies in history)

Parfitt, Tudor (1987) The Jews of Africa and Asia: contemporary anti-Semitism and other pressures. London: Minority Rights Group.

Parfitt, Tudor (1987) The thirteenth gate : travels among the Lost Tribes of Israel. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

Kessler, David and Parfitt, Tudor (1985) The Falashas: the Jews of Ethiopia. London: Minority Rights Group.

Parfitt, Tudor (1985) Operation Moses: the untold story of the secret exodus of the Falasha Jews from Ethiopia. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

Abramson, Glenda and Parfitt, Tudor (1983) Great tranquillity: questions and answers [Translation from the Hebrew of Yehuda Amichai's Shalṿah gedolah]. New York: Harper and Row.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Parfitt, Tudor and Trevisan Semi, Emanuela, eds. (2005) The Jews of Ethiopia: the birth of an élite. London: Routledge.

Parfitt, Tudor and Egorova, Yulia, eds. (2003) Jews, Muslims and mass media : mediating the other. London: RoutledgeCurzon.

Parfitt, Tudor, ed. (2000) Israel and Ishmael: Studies in Muslim-Jewish Relations. London: Curzon.

Parfitt, Tudor and Trevisan Semi, Emanuela, eds. (1999) The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel: Studies on the Ethiopian Jews. London: Curzon.

Kaplan, Steven, Parfitt, Tudor and Trevisan Semi, Emanuela, eds. (1995) Between Africa and Zion : proceedings of the First International Congress of the Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry. Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute.

Parfitt, Tudor and Abramson, Glenda, eds. (1995) Jewish education and learning: published in honour of Dr. David Patterson on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers.

Parfitt, Tudor and Trevisan Semi, Emanuela, eds. (1993) L'altro Visto Dall'altro. Letteratura Araba ed Ebraica a Confronto. Milan: Cortina Libreria.

Parfitt, Tudor and Abramson, Glenda, eds. (1985) The Great transition : the recovery of the lost centers of modern Hebrew literature. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Allanheld.

Book Chapters

Parfitt, Tudor (2008) 'Preface.' In: Bruder, E., (ed.), The Black Jews of Africa: History Religion, Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, v-vi.

Parfitt, Tudor (2007) 'Bayudaya.' In: Berenbaum, Michael and Skolnik, Fred, (eds.), Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2nd Edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, p. 233.

Parfitt, Tudor (2007) 'Bene Ephraim.' In: Berenbaum, Michael and Skolnik, Fred, (eds.), Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2nd Edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, p. 334.

Parfitt, Tudor (2007) 'Benjamin, Yehoshua.' In: Berenbaum, Michael and Skolnik, Fred, (eds.), Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2nd Edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, p. 360.

Fischel, Walter, Parfitt, Tudor and Pragai, Michael (2007) 'Burma.' In: Berenbaum, Michael and Skolnik, Fred, (eds.), Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2nd Edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 296-297.

Parfitt, Tudor (2007) 'Ezekiel, Nissim.' In: Berenbaum, Michael and Skolnik, Fred, (eds.), Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2nd Edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, p. 648.

Parfitt, Tudor (2007) 'House of Israel Community.' In: Berenbaum, Michael and Skolnik, Fred, (eds.), Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2nd Edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 569-570.

Parfitt, Tudor (2007) 'Ibo.' In: Berenbaum, Michael and Skolnik, Fred, (eds.), Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2nd Edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, p. 701.

Kublin, Hyman, Schudrich, Michael, Tuval, Shaul, Tokayer, Marvin, Parfitt, Tudor, Levine, Stephen and ben-Shammai, Haggai (2007) 'Japan.' In: Berenbaum, Michael and Skolnik, Fred, (eds.), Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2nd Edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 81-85.

Fischel, Walter and Parfitt, Tudor (2007) 'Kashmir.' In: Berenbaum, Michael and Skolnik, Fred, (eds.), Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2nd Edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 821-822.

Samuel, Shabdai, Gourgey, Percy and Parfitt, Tudor (2007) 'Koder.' In: Berenbaum, Michael and Skolnik, Fred, (eds.), Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2nd Edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, p. 251.

Parfitt, Tudor (2007) 'Lemba.' In: Berenbaum, Michael and Skolnik, Fred, (eds.), Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2nd Edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 636-637.

Jindo, Akira and Parfitt, Tudor (2007) 'Makuya.' In: Berenbaum, Michael and Skolnik, Fred, (eds.), Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2nd Edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 420-421.

Gourgey, Percy and Parfitt, Tudor (2007) 'Singapore.' In: Berenbaum, Michael and Skolnik, Fred, (eds.), Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2nd Edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, p. 633.

Parfitt, Tudor (2007) 'Tribal Jews.' In: Katz, N., (ed.), Indo-judaic studies in the twenty-first century a view from the margin. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 181-196.

Parfitt, Tudor (2007) 'Tutsi.' In: Berenbaum, Michael and Skolnik, Fred, (eds.), Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2nd Edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, p. 207.

Parfitt, Tudor (2007) 'Zakhor.' In: Berenbaum, Michael and Skolnik, Fred, (eds.), Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2nd Edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, p. 447.

Parfitt, Tudor (2005) 'The Use of the Jew in Colonial Discourse.' In: Pinslar, D and Kalmar, I. D., (eds.), Orientalism and the Jews. Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press, pp. 51-67.

Parfitt, Tudor (2005) 'The construction of Jewish Identities in Africa.' In: Parfitt, Tudor and Trevisan Semi, Emanuela, (eds.), Jews of Ethiopia: the Birth of an Elite. London: Routledge, pp. 1-42.

Parfitt, Tudor (2004) 'Are Jews Black.' In: De Graef, Katrien, (ed.), Baʻal milim: liber amicorum Julien Klener. Ghent: University of Ghent, pp. 111-120.

Dwyer, Rachel (2004) 'Representing the Muslim: the 'courtesan film' in Indian popular cinema.' In: Parfitt, Tudor and Egorova, Yulia, (eds.), Jews, Muslims and Mass Media Mediating the 'Other'. London: Routledge/Curzon, pp. 78-92. (Routledge Jewish Studies Series)

Parfitt, Tudor (2003) 'Introduction to Jews, Muslims, and mass media: mediating the 'other'.' In: Parfitt, Tudor and Egorova, Yulia, (eds.), Jews, Muslims, and mass media: mediating the 'other'. London: Routledge/Curzon, pp. 1-11. (Routledge Curzon Jewish Studies Series)

Shindler, Colin (2003) 'Reading The Guardian: Jews, Israel-Palestine and the Origins of Irritation.' In: Parfitt, Tudor and Egorova, Yulia, (eds.), Jews, Muslims and Mass Media. London: Routledge Curzon, pp. 157-177.

Parfitt, Tudor (2000) 'Dhimma versus Protection in 19th Century Morocco.' In: Parfitt, Tudor, (ed.), Israel and Ishmael : studies in Muslim-Jewish relations. London: Curzon-SOAS Near and Middle East Publications, pp. 142-166.

Parfitt, Tudor (2000) 'The Jewish Image of the Imam: Paradox or Paradigm?' In: Parfitt, Tudor, (ed.), Israel and Ishmael : studies in Muslim-Jewish relations. London: Curzon-SOAS Near and Middle East Publications, pp. 207-225.

Parfitt, Tudor (2000) 'Preface.' In: Parfitt, Tudor, (ed.), Israel and Ishmael : studies in Muslim-Jewish relations. London: Curzon-SOAS Near and Middle East Publications, xi-xii.

Parfitt, Tudor (2000) 'Redemption from the East: a Jewish Orientalist Discourse.' In: Abramson, Glenda, (ed.), Modern Jewish Mythologies. Cincinatti: Hebrew Union College Press, pp. 151-163.

Parfitt, Tudor (1999) 'Rabbi Nahoum's Anthropological Mission to Ethiopia.' In: Parfitt, Tudor and Trevisan Semi, Emanuela, (eds.), The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel: Studies on Ethiopian Jews. London: Curzon, pp. 1-14.

Parfitt, Tudor (1998) 'The Imam the Orphans and the Jews.' In: Crown, A., (ed.), Noblesse oblige: essays in honour of David Kessler OBE on his ninetieth birthday. London: Vallentine Mitchell, pp. 160-169.

Parfitt, Tudor (1997) 'La Grande Bretagne et les relations entre Juifs et Musulmans au Maroc au 19eme siècle.' In: Abitbol, M., (ed.), Relations judéo-musulmanes au Maroc : perceptions et réalités. Paris: Stavit, pp. 105-122.

Parfitt, Tudor (1995) 'Between Africa and Zion: the Case of the Lemba.' In: Kaplan, Steven, Parfitt, Tudor and Trevisan Semi, Emanuela, (eds.), Between Africa and Zion : proceedings of the First International Congress of the Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry. Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, pp. 21-28.

Parfitt, Tudor (1995) 'Peretz Smolenskin, the Revival of Hebrew and Jewish Education.' In: Abramson, Glenda and Parfitt, Tudor, (eds.), Jewish education and learning : published in honour of Dr. David Patterson on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, pp. 1-11.

Parfitt, Tudor (1993) 'Un uomo migliore di me Gunga Din. L'immagine degli arabi nei racconti di Moshe Smilanski.' In: Trevisan Semi, Emanuela and Parfitt, Tudor, (eds.), L'Altro Visto Dall'altro: Letteratura Araba ed Ebraica a Confronto. Milan: Edizioni Libreria Cortina, pp. 51-59.

Parfitt, Tudor (1992) 'The Jews.' In: Tapper, Richard, (ed.), Some minorities in the Middle East. London: SOAS Centre of Near and Middle East Studies, pp. 35-56. (Occasional papers (University of London. Centre of Near and Middle Eastern Studies), 9.)

Parfitt, Tudor (1992) 'Middle East and North Africa; India; Japan; Malaysia.' In: Antisemitism. London: Insitute of Jewish Affairs, 71-86, 92, 93.

Parfitt, Tudor (1991) 'The Lexicographer: a harmless drudge?' In: Cigman, G. and Howlett, D., (eds.), Birthday celebration for Naky Doniach O.B.E. Oxford: Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, pp. 43-49.

Parfitt, Tudor (1991) 'Modern Hebrew: the Age of Translation and Adaptation 1850-1914.' In: Ostle, Robin, (ed.), Modern literature in the Near and Middle East 1850-1970. London: Routledge, pp. 63-75.

Parfitt, Tudor (1988) 'The Connection between the Falashas and the Land of Israel.' In: Sharon, Moshe, (ed.), Pillars of smoke and fire: the Holy Land in history and thought. Johannesburg: Southern Book Publishers, pp. 63-75.

Parfitt, Tudor (1988) 'Modern Movements in Judaism.' In: Mostyn, Trevor, (ed.), Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the Middle East and North Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 187-189.

Parfitt, Tudor (1985) 'Agnon and Germany.' In: Abramson, Glenda and Parfitt, Tudor, (eds.), The Great transition : the recovery of the lost centers of modern Hebrew literature. New York: Rowman and Allanheld, pp. 59-71.

Parfitt, Tudor (1985) 'The Year of the Pride of Israel: Montefiore and the blood libel of 1840.' In: Lipman, S. and Lipman, V.D., (eds.), The Century of Moses Montefiore. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 131-148.

Parfitt, Tudor (1983) 'Ahad Ha-Am's Role in the Revival and Development of Hebrew.' In: Kornberg, J., (ed.), At the crossroads: essays on Ahad Ha-am. New York: State University of New York Press, pp. 12-27.

Parfitt, Tudor (1982) 'Sir Moses Montefiore and Palestine.' In: Lipman, V.D., (ed.), Sir Moses Montefiore. Oxford: The Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, pp. 31-42.

Parfitt, Tudor (1981) 'Language Revival: A Comparison of the Work of Eliezer Ben-Yehudah and L'udovit Štùr.' In: Silberschlag, E., (ed.), Eliezer Ben-Yehudah: A Symposium at Oxford. Oxford: Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, pp. 40-53.

Parfitt, Tudor and Abramson, Glenda (1981) 'Translation of Y. Amichai's "Returning from Ein Gedi".' In: Amichai, Yehuda, (ed.), Love poems : a bilingual edition. Jerusalem: Schocken, p. 21.

Journal Article

López, Saioa, Thomas, Mark G., van Dorp, Lucy, Ansari-Pour, Naser, Stewart, Sarah, Jones, Abigail L., Jelinek, Erik, Chikhi, Lounès, Parfitt, Tudor, Bradman, Neil, Weale, Michael E. and Hellenthal, Garrett (2017) 'The Genetic Legacy of Zoroastrianism in Iran and India: Insights into Population Structure, Gene Flow, and Selection.' The American Journal of Human Genetics, 101 (3). pp. 353-368.

Parfitt, Tudor (2006) 'Where is God’s Gold?' World Jewish Digest, 4 (4). p. 16.

Parfitt, Tudor (2005) 'Yabisaba Take Me Home.' World Jewish Digest, 5 (3). p. 1.

Parfitt, Tudor (2005) 'The Development of Fictive Israelite Identities in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific (17th-21th c.).' Diasporas. Histoire et Sociétés, 5. pp. 49-56.

Parfitt, Tudor and Egorova, Yulia (2005) 'Genetics, History, And Identity: The Case of The Bene Israel and the Lemba.' Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 29 (2). pp. 193-224.

Parfitt, Tudor (2004) 'On Wings of Eagles: Operation Moses Twenty Years Later.' World Jewish Digest, 2 (4). p. 26.

Parfitt, Tudor (2004) 'Her name was Judith: The Venerable British Tradition of Philo-Semitism.' World Jewish Digest, 2 (2). p. 6.

Parfitt, Tudor (2004) 'In Search of the Lost Tribes.' World Jewish Digest, 1 (9). p. 24.

Parfitt, Tudor (2003) 'Constructing Black Jews: Genetic Tests and the Lemba - the 'Black Jews' of South Africa.' Developing World Bioethics, 3 (2). pp. 112-118.

Parfitt, Tudor (2003) 'Place, Priestly Status and Purity: The Impact of Genetic Research on an Indian Jewish Community.' Developing World Bioethics, 3 (2). pp. 178-185.

Parfitt, Tudor (2003) 'Hebrew in colonial discourse.' Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2 (2). pp. 159-173.

Parfitt, Tudor (2003) 'Descended from Jewish Seed: Genetics and Jewish history in India: the Bene Israel and the Black Jews of Cochin.' Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies, vi. pp. 7-18.

Parfitt, Tudor (2002) 'Genes, Religion and History: the Creation of a Discourse of Origin among a Judaising African Tribe.' Jurimetrics, the Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, 42 (2). pp. 209-219.

Parfitt, Tudor (2002) 'The Land of Hard Bondage: the Lost Tribes in India.' The Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies, 5. pp. 55-68.

Parfitt, Tudor (2001) 'Une étrange quete des origines: l'affaire des Lembas du Zimbabwe et du sud de l'Afrique et du chromosome Y des Cohanim.' Le fait d'analyse, 10 (La fabriqu). pp. 125-152.

Parfitt, Tudor (2000) 'British Policy and the Jews of the Yemen (in Hebrew).' Tema, 7. pp. 151-175.

Parfitt, Tudor, Thomas, Mark G., Weiss, DA, Skorecki, K, Wilson, JF, Le Rous, M, Bradman, Neil and Goldstein, D (2000) 'Y Chromosomes Travelling South: The Cohen Modal Hapolotype and the Origins of the Lemba - the 'Black Jews of Southern Africa'.' The American Journal of Human Genetics, 66 (2). pp. 674-686.

Parfitt, Tudor (1999) 'Savage-pictures (in French).' Le fait d'analyse, 6. pp. 147-164.

Parfitt, Tudor (1998) 'Origins of Old Testament priests.' Nature, 394 (6689). pp. 138-140.

Parfitt, Tudor (1998) 'The position of the Jews and their contribution to Yemeni Society during the reign of the Imam Yahya.' Orientalia Karalitana: Quaderni dell'Istituto Studi Africani e Orientali, 3. pp. 81-101.

Parfitt, Tudor (1994) 'Obituary: T.Carmi.' The Independent, 16 Dec. p. 16.

Parfitt, Tudor (1994) 'Obituary: Nakdimon Doniach.' The Independent, Apr 23. p. 11.

Parfitt, Tudor (1994) 'The Juice and the Pomegranate [a review article on B.-Z.Eraqi Klorman 'The Jews of the Yemen in the Nineteenth Century' and Erich Brauer 'The Jews of Kurdistan'].' Times Literary Supplement, March. pp. 27-28.

Parfitt, Tudor (1992) 'Obituary: Avot Yeshurun.' The Independent, Feb. p. 27.

Parfitt, Tudor (1991) 'Ethiopia: Home at last, but where are they from?' The Independent, May 26. p. 12.

Parfitt, Tudor (1991) 'Language and Nationalism: Ben Yehudah, L'udovit štúr and Claudius Labib.' Linguistics. pp. 24-27.

Parfitt, Tudor (1991) 'Language Revival and Reform (in Hungarian).' Annual of Hungarian Academy of Ethnography.

Parfitt, Tudor (1988) 'Translation of ‘The Man Who Lives on a Star’ (Im Na Matzati Hen) a short story by Amaliah Kahana Karmon.' Ariel (75).

Parfitt, Tudor (1988) 'A Gay Tribe of Israel: Judaism and Homosexuality.' Present Tense, 15.

Parfitt, Tudor (1987) 'Translation from the Hebrew: 'Poems from the Lebanon War': Nathan Zach, 'The desire for precision', Ephraim Sidon, 'Children', Daliah Ravikovitch, 'You can't kill a child twice', 'They are freezing in the north'.' London magazine, 27 (5/6). pp. 107-110.

Parfitt, Tudor and Abramson, Glenda (1987) '[Translation of] Poems of Yehuda Amichai 'Inside the Apple', 'From Man Are You', 'I'll be magnified and sanctified', 'Waking from sleep in the evening', 'Parting in England', 'The memory of love - what will be?', 'Jerusalem 1985, 'Roses climbing over a wall'.' London magazine, 27 (5/6). pp. 16-20.

Parfitt, Tudor and Abramson, Glenda (1987) 'Translation of T. Carmi, ‘An Israeli Abroad’ and ‘Letter to a Customs Officer’.' The Jerusalem Post Magazine.

Parfitt, Tudor (1984) 'The Contribution of the Old Yishuv to the Revival of Hebrew.' Journal of Semitic Studies, xxix (2). pp. 255-265.

Parfitt, Tudor and Abramson, Glenda (1983) '“Beautiful are the families in Jerusalem”, “The child is sick”, “Jerusalem Ecology”.' London magazine, 23 (7). pp. 62-63.

Parfitt, Tudor and Abramson, Glenda (1983) 'Translation of “Beautiful are the families in Jerusalem”; “The child is sick”; “Jerusalem Ecology”.' London magazine, 23 (7). pp. 62-63.

Parfitt, Tudor and Abramson, G. (1983) 'Translation of “Again love has ended”.' Times Literary Supplement.

Parfitt, Tudor and Abramson, Glenda (1982) '“A Child is something else”, “The Windmill in Yemin Moshe”, “A Wedding Song”.' Jewish Affairs.

Parfitt, Tudor and Abramson, Glenda (1982) '“I don’t know if History Repeats Itself”, “In the Mountains of Jerusalem”, “Lying in Wait for Happiness”, “The Windmill in Yemin Moshe”, “An Arab Shepherd is Seeking a Kid on Mount Zion”.' Ariel, 51.

Parfitt, Tudor and Abramson, Glenda (1982) '“A Meeting with My Father”, “Closed are the doors”, “On the Day my daughter was born no-one died”.' Modern Hebrew Literature, 7 (3-4).

Parfitt, Tudor and Abramson, Glenda (1981) '“Things that have been lost”, “A meeting with my father”, “Rain in a Foreign Land”.' Poetry (128). pp. 137-139.

Parfitt, Tudor and Abramson, Glenda (1981) 'Translation of “Since Then”, “Air Hostess”.' London magazine.

Parfitt, Tudor and Abramson, Glenda (1981) 'Translation of “You Can Rely On Him”.' Times Literary Supplement.

Parfitt, Tudor and Abramson, Glenda (1979) 'Translation of T. Carmi, ‘A Song to my Street’.' Forum (34). pp. 133-134.

Parfitt, Tudor and Abramson, Glenda (1978) 'Translation of T. Carmi, ‘Midnight Vigil’.' Present Tense, 4.

Parfitt, Tudor and Abramson, Glenda (1978) 'Translation of T. Carmi, ‘Dawn Departure’.' Times Literary Supplement.

Parfitt, Tudor (1977) 'The French Consulate and the Jewish Community in Palestine in the Nineteenth Century (in Hebrew).' Cathedra.

Parfitt, Tudor (1976) 'The Jews of Djerba.' Present Tense, 3.

Parfitt, Tudor (1972) 'The Use of Hebrew in Palestine 1800–1822.' Journal of Semitic Studies, 17 (2). pp. 237-252.

Other

Parfitt, Tudor (2008) 'Quest for the Lost Ark. Director Martin Kemp.' Channel 4 and The History Channel.

Parfitt, Tudor (1999) 'To the Ends of the Earth: Search for the Sons of Abraham. Director Chris Hale.' Channel 4.

Parfitt, Tudor (1993) 'The Longest Exile. Producer Julian Hale.' BBC.

Parfitt, Tudor (1992) 'King Solomon’s Tribe. Producer Julian Hale.' BBC.

Parfitt, Tudor (1988) 'The Twice Promised Land. Producer Steve Sackur.' BBC.