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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: Linda Grant and Jewish history
Description: A Baltic forest in 1913, Soho and the suburbs of Liverpool and the Jewish community that grows up there are the settings for Linda Grant's new novel The Story of the Forest. She joins presenter John Gallagher, Rachel Lichtenstein and Julia Pascal for a conversation about writing and Jewish identity in the North West as we also hear about Julia Pascal's play Manchester Girlhood and look at the re-opening of the Manchester Jewish Museum with curator Alex Cropper .Producer in Salford: Nick Holmeshttps://www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/ has re-opened after a £6 million redevelopment
Dr Rachel Lichtenstein i...