This week's Backbeat show features a classic blues from Mississippi John Hurt, smooth, jazzy stylings from Nat King Cole and from Dinah Washington, plus some people who are normally in the background, the Jordanaires and Allan Tousaint, take front and centre. As usual there's the mix of familiar, somewhat familiar and downright unknown artists.

The legislation I have announced today will be in place within 6 to 9 months and we will also take more immediate steps. Today we are sanctioning a further set of extremist settlers who have supported or incited acts of violence against Palestinian communities. And I can also announce that we are extending the existing global human rights regime such that it will enable swifter action to deter settlement expansion, including crucially seeking to present the development of E1. I also want to address the question of arms sales. We have already suspended over 30 arms licences used by the IDF in Gaza. That suspension remains fully in place. We will now also refuse all licence applications for arms and other exports that materially contribute to the occupation, in effect a double lock against arms sales. This means the ban on such exports will now remain as long as the occupation persists. To advance the two state solution, we also need viable and effective Palestinian governance. On the question of genocide, the UK has always supported full, robust and fair judicial processes to consider allegations, with final determinations made by competent courts before the British government reaches a conclusion. This has been the case for all of the genocides since the 1948 Genocide Convention: Rwanda, Srebrenica, Cambodia, and acts against the Yazidi people. This will remain our policy. It is right that this issue has been brought before the ICJ and I want to make it clear that we support the Court in coming to its determination. So accountability for what has happened in Gaza matters. But even more urgent is action to address the ongoing crisis. Because today in Gaza, the death and suffering continue. Nearly a year ago, Madame Deputy Speaker, a ceasefire was declared. Yet over 1,200 Palestinians have been killed since. And the people of Gaza are experiencing a totally avoidable humanitarian catastrophe, I am afraid, driven by decisions of the Israeli government. Last week I talked to courageous doctors and humanitarian aid workers who have served in Gaza. It was a heartbreaking conversation. They recounted: Children dying waiting for medical treatment. People forced to live next to open sewage and without shelter. And food insecurity rampant. I’m sure the whole House agrees, this is unconscionable. So I pledge we will continue to do everything we can to provide all the humanitarian support possible to help the people of Gaza. UK-supported hospitals in Gaza will enable around 800,000 medical consultations this year and essential health services for patients. UK expertise will deliver care to over a thousand child amputees. And we recently welcomed another wave of students from Gaza coming to study in Britain and we will welcome more. But in truth, unless Israel changes course, the situation will remain dire. So we are taking further steps – both ourselves and with others. Our extension of the global human rights sanctions regime will enable us to target those responsible for violations of international humanitarian law, whether in Gaza or anywhere else in the world. And we will at the UN General Assembly in New York later this month shine the clearest and harshest spotlight on what is happening and what must change. And with Jordan, we will convene countries across the world to lead a call for action on health and humanitarian access. We will also lend the UK’s voice to the growing global alliance of countries - led by Arab partners in the region - calling for the full implementation of the US-led 20 point plan, the rejection of extremism, and for a lasting end to the cycles of violence. As we implement the policy measures I have announced today, we will continue to assess the government of Israel by its actions. We want to see a new approach – in both Gaza and the West Bank. Madame Deputy Speaker, today we refuse to be bystanders to further suffering and to the destruction of the two state solution. We call out what is unlawful. We act on the import of goods from illegal settlements. We ban advertising of illegal settlements We act on services to prevent new settlement expansion. We act on settler violence. We support accountability for what has happened in Gaza. And we pledge to galvanise the international community to confront the ongoing and urgent humanitarian crisis. Above all, we say: Britain is not silent in the face of deep injustice and nor is it powerless. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/foreign-secretary-oral-statement-on-israel-palestine

Indigenous in Music with Larry K and Donita Large (Folk, Rock) Your tuned into Indigenous in Music with Larry K! Today we're honored to welcome an extraordinary Cree artist whose music bridges generations through powerful storytelling and unforgettable performances. From Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Treaty 6 Territory, Donita Large has built an international following with her unique blend of blues, rock, country, folk, and traditional Indigenous music. She's joining us to celebrate her remarkable new album, The Ancestors, a deeply personal collection honoring culture, resilience, healing, and the voices of those who came before us. Donita is currently featured in our current issue of the SAY Magazine. Come read all about her at our place on the web at www.indigenousinmusicandarts.org/past-shows/donita-large Enjoy music from Donita Large, Janel Munoa, QVLN, First Floor Highway, The City Lines, Bartolo, Logan Statts, Bobbi-Jo Starr, Thea Hopkins, Jose Feliciano, Samantha Crain, Gladwyn Badger, Los Destellos, Sandy Scofield, Chantil Dukart, Qacung, Delbert Anderson, western medicine show, Wayne Lavallee, RematriNation, J.A.M, Lil Mike and Funny Bone, Def-i, Ariano, Terri Anne Strongarm, Shawnee Kish and much more. Visit us at www.indigenousinmusicandarts.org to explore our programs, celebrate culture, and connect with powerful voices shaping our communities. Step inside our new Indigenous in Music Directory and meet the incredible Artists and Entrepreneurs who are making an impact today in the music industry.

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CODEPINK launched a new initiative, “Feminists: Stand with Palestine," which calls on women’s organizations to confront Israel’s gendered and sexual violence and support Palestinian reproductive and maternal health. Their Palestine campaigner, Jenin, sits down with hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to discuss why Palestine is an intersectional struggle – one that's anti-capitalist, anti-patriarchy, anti-imperialist – and why, unfortunately, many mainstream women’s organizations end up supporting or accommodating the very systems that this struggle challenges. On the Resistance Report, Jon Elmer covers the tanker war developing in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian missile attacks on US warships in the Arabian Sea and airbases in Jordan. Electronic Intifada contributor Roqayah Chameseddine reports that Israeli attacks on the south of Lebanon are escalating, and dozens have been killed in the last few days.

Today we revisit a moment in history when Israel claimed to be the victim of an attack by its neighbors, blaming them for daring to free their own occupied land in the Golan Heights of Syria and the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. The October War, known in the West as the Yom Kippur War, was not a sudden act of aggression. It was a coordinated attempt by Arab nations to reclaim territories taken in 1967, territories recognized by the world as occupied. Egypt crossed the Suez Canal to retake Sinai. Syria launched a massive offensive to recover the Golan Heights. For the Arab world, this was not an invasion. It was self defense. It was liberation. It was the restoration of land that had been seized and held under military rule. Yet even in this context, Israel presented itself as the victim. It framed the war as an unprovoked attack timed to exploit a religious holiday. It shaped the narrative so that the world saw only surprise and danger, not occupation and resistance. This pattern did not begin in 1973. It stretches back decades into the very foundations of the conflict. In 1946, long before Israel became a state, the King David Hotel in Jerusalem was bombed by the Irgun paramilitary organization. The explosion killed ninety one people. British officials, staff, civilians, Jews, Palestinians. The dead were not soldiers. They were administrators, clerks, hotel workers, and visitors. It was one of the deadliest attacks of the British Mandate period. Yet over time, the event was reframed, softened, justified, or buried beneath a larger narrative of victimhood. Two decades later, in 1967, the USS Liberty, an American Navy intelligence ship, was attacked in international waters. Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats struck the vessel repeatedly. Rockets, machine gun fire, napalm. When the assault ended, thirty four American sailors were dead and one hundred seventy one were wounded. The United States never received a clear explanation. Families never received closure. And the world moved on, as if the deaths of American servicemen were a footnote rather than a tragedy. These events reveal a pattern in how wars involving Israel have been remembered. A pattern where the state presents itself as the perpetual victim, even in moments when its own actions caused devastation. A pattern where history is edited, where context is removed, where occupation is erased, and where retaliation is portrayed as aggression. A pattern where the suffering of others is overshadowed by a narrative crafted for political survival. Today, we revisit these moments not to inflame hatred and not to generalize about any people. We revisit them to understand how states shape memory, how governments rewrite history, and how narratives become shields that protect power. Because the wars with Israel cannot be understood through slogans or headlines. They must be understood through the events that were forgotten, the stories that were buried, and the truths that were never allowed to surface. If you have thoughts, I want to hear them. Email me at TWIPpodcasts@gmail.com and tell me how you see it. This is This Week in Palestine.

Imagine growing up in a tightly bound community of no more than 60 people who worked from dawn to dusk and who were subjected to unimaginable indignities and torture. Why? Because they were African Americans born into slavery in the United States prior in the first half of the 19th century. They hoped and dreamed of freedom, freedom to an unknown place; that freedom served as a guide for those who risked their lives to flee the bondage. Freedom for some was found in the seaport town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, where escaped former slaves were welcome. New Bedford was the richest city in the world in the 1850s, a city run by Quakers and other abolitionists, who created a safe haven for black people from the south. The 1,000 plus men and women who found refuge in New Bedford were more than enough to hide the newcomers as they arrived. Often the men found work on the whaling ships that ventured forth around the world from the New Bedford harbor. More can be learned about whaling in New Bedford in a two part Radio Curious program here. In this series about New Bedford as a safe haven on the Underground Railroad, we explore the lives of freedom seeking ex-slaves who safely made the journey to the south east corner of Massachusetts. In this, the second of a two part program, we continue our visit with National Park Ranger Mark Mello. Part of Ranger Mello’s work is that of a tour guide interpreting the history and stories of pre-civil war New Bedford. His interpretations focus on the bravery and dedication of New Bedford residents at that time. I joined Mark Mello’s walking tour about the Underground Railroad’s connection to New Bedford in the Old Town Section on September 2, 2016. This edition of Radio Curious begins with Ranger Mello’s story of Nathan and Polly Johnson, a free black couple who lived and worked there–he as a pharmacist and she a confectionary. The books Mark Mello recommends are “Fugitive’s Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts,” by Kathryn Grover; “Whale Hunt,” by Nelson Cole Haley; and “Leviathan,” by Philip Hoare.

So, that was Labour Day. We relish the last Summer Scraps from Alba’s Edge, Open the heavens with a Summer Storm from Patrick Mangan, tipple some Celtic Creole and Scottish Celtronica. You’ll even hear sounds from Finland and Galicia when you’ve got yer Celt In A Twist, this week with Patricia Fraser!

This hour, your introduction to love, Gnawa-style from Samir LanGus. World beaters and gear heads alike should enjoy Califa F1 from Skanderani, new Nubian soul from Real World Records, fresh spins from Soroche and Ezra Collective PLUS the most sampled drum beat in history from Shawn Lee’s Incredible Tabla Band. The familiar meets the phenomenal on World Beat Canada Radio!

A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Germany, France, Japan, Cuba.

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Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news for the week of September 3rd to the 10th, 2026.

It took several years of insults and economic attacks, but Canadians are finally starting to dislike the USA. A survey released Saturday by polling firm Leger finds that a plurality of Canadians now view the US as an “enemy” nation thanks to President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on their economy and national sovereignty. The poll finds that 41% of Canadians now consider the US an enemy, compared with 22% who say the US is an ally, and 22% who say the US is a neutral country. Today's guest is Brian Rathbun, Professor of international relations and political science at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs

We go back to a time when drinking songs prevailed and you often sang them under a table, Bob Dylan gets the moog treatment and we really deep dive into a chart topping cheezy about romantic rodents like never have when we played the song before. Yeah, you know what you're in for now.

The Taylor Report, September 7, 2026: a Labour Day report from union activist Phil Conlon detailing the issues and unions that brought larger numbers to the annual march. Plus a talk with Pedro, the magician, remembering a great name in magic.

Dr. Asaad Abu Sharkh. From inside the US/Israeli prison that is Gaza, this interview was recorded in 2018 - under difficult conditions. After that, Salman Abu Sitta of the Palestine Land Society, discusses the theft of Palestine and the genocidal attempt to erase the Palestinian people from the face of the earth as the longest continual Ethnic Cleansing in history.

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