Media miscellany & Music

Today's program begins with a miscellany of items from the web, regarding Israeli-Palestinian relations, a banned documentary on the Israeli-lobby in the US, President Trump on Saudi Arabia, and more. Then: American jazz singer Stacey Kent was in the Spanish capital recently where she gave a sold-out concert at the Madrid International Jazz Festival, and we end today's broadcast with two tracks from her 2017 album "I Know I Dream: The Orchestral Sessions." With music by Stacey Kent's musical partner and husband Jim Tomlinson and lyrics by, repectively, Cliff Goldmacher and Kazuro Ishiguro, we hear the album's title track as well as the dreamy, atmospheric, and intimate song set on a Japanese high-speed train and entitled "Bullet Train."​