Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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I was pleased to see that the print version of Radio Times for 18–24 April has a double-page feature about British-Iranian actor and comedian Omid Djalili costuming up as Henry VIII for the new series of The Omid Djalili Show (BBC1 Monday 10:35pm, beginning on 20 April).
Omid, who is a member of the UK Baha’i [...]
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Would it be too much to claim that this man, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, changed the world?
Watching the first of three episodes of BBC 2 TV’s excellent new documentary on Iran and the West (available on BBC iPlayer to those living in the UK) was enough to persuade me (had I needed persuading) [...]
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Did you know that at the peak of the working day Britons send more than 5,000 text messages per second? Or that between 7 and 10am every working day, 36 million Britons are on the move commuting to the office or school? Or that the average road user in Britain will spend more than 6 [...]
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So, National Convention started in Llandudno yesterday afternoon. Consultation is currently focusing on the teaching plans of the Bahá’í community.
I drove the 20 miles to Bangor after breakfast for an interview with BBC Radio Wales about the recent arrests of the Bahá’í leadership in Iran. It was a “friendly” interview. The interviewer was not trying [...]
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I’m in the North Wales seaside resort of Llandudno for the Baha’i National Convention this weekend. It’s time once again for the election of the National Spiritual Assembly, the Bahá’í community’s national governing council.
I don’t know if I shall be able to blog while I’m there, but I shall be doing a couple of radio [...]
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The story of the recent arrests of the “Friends”, the informal Bahá’í coordinating group in Iran, appeared yesterday on the BBC news website. You can read it here.
And Amnesty International have put out a call for urgent action on the case here. Do please respond to this.
Technorati Tags: Baha’i, Bahai, Iran, persecution, [...]
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Iranians, said Omid Djalili, as he opened the first episode of his new TV show on BBC One, just don’t get British humour:
For you, an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman is a joke. For us, it’s a hostage situation.
Or the Middle Eastern equivalent of the “knock knock” joke: the “floomph floomph” joke. “Floomph [...]
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