The Lines We Draw (Tim Franks)

Bloomsbury presents The Lines We Draw: The Journalist, the Jew and an Argument About Identity, written and read by Tim Franks A moving journey through a Jewish family history from BBC Newshour presenter Tim Franks. Tim Franks spent years as the BBC's Middle East Correspondent covering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

Author:: Tim Franks
Narrator:: Tim Franks
Content:: Unabridged (chapter list)
Length:: 9:37 h
Format:: MP3 download (464 MB)
Language:: English
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Continuum (2025)
Genre:: Biographies & Autobiographies
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01 - Opening Credits	0:21	1 MB
02 - Introduction	9:35	8 MB
03 - Prologue Birmingham	8:51	7 MB
04 - 1 On Stories The Refugee	14:31	11 MB
05 - 2 On Prejudice The Student	35:57	28 MB
06 - 3a On Risk The Risk-takers	60:16	47 MB
07 - 3b On Risk The Risk-takers	48:04	38 MB
08 - 4a On Facts The Victorians	42:58	34 MB
09 - 4b On Facts The Victorians	37:36	29 MB
10 - 5 On War The Soldier	55:32	45 MB
11 - 6a On Precision and Concision The Lost Part 1	41:18	33 MB
12 - 6b On Precision and Concision The Lost Part 1	46:15	36 MB
13 - 7 On Justice The Lost Part 2	30:06	23 MB
14 - Pause	6:51	5 MB
15 - 8 On Trust The Immigrant	36:27	29 MB
16 - 9 On Joy The Artists	72:22	60 MB
17 - Epilogue	28:54	23 MB
18 - End Credits	1:02	1 MB

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Summary

Bloomsbury presents The Lines We Draw: The Journalist, the Jew and an Argument About Identity, written and read by Tim Franks

A moving journey through a Jewish family history from BBC Newshour presenter Tim Franks.
Tim Franks spent years as the BBC's Middle East Correspondent covering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. During that time, he was attacked as a self-hating Jew and as an Islamophobe – as a tool of competing, malign agendas. He always tried to respond with a journalist's detached curiosity, drawing a clear line between his identity and his work. Up to the point that he asked himself: is that necessary? Beyond the judgments of others: what does it mean to be Jewish?
It was a question he struggled to answer. As a child in 1970s Birmingham, Tim was a practising Jew with hardly any relations or sense of lineage. And so he embarked on a search for his ancestral roots, from Constantinople to Curaçao, from Amsterdam to the death camps, from Lithuania to Downing Street.
Framing each part of his journey through what he has learned as a journalist, Tim discovers ancestors who all speak to a part of the Jewish story: there are the refugees and the risk-takers; the artists, rabbis, soldiers and revolutionaries; there is even a route to the Conservative Party's unlikeliest leader, Benjamin Disraeli.
This book is a deeply empathetic memoir which encourages us all to confront the lines we draw. In searching for what it is to be Jewish, Tim discovers what it means to take a stand and write about the world.
© 2025 Tim Franks

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