In The Zone - with Danny Cohen & Rachel Cockerell

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🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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In an exclusive interview, Zone of Interest executive producer Danny Cohen tells Yonit and Jonathan why he believes the film’s director Jonathan Glazer got his Oscars speech so badly wrong. Plus: an update on the war, aid and the widening rift between Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu - and a conversation with Rachel Cockerell, author of an acclaimed new book about a long forgotten alternative Zion, deep in the heart of Texas. -- Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unholypodcast/Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150578065793142See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Israel saying it will flood Gaza with humanitarian aid, a growing rift between Biden and
0:06.1	Njahou zone of interest, executive producer telling us on Unholy this week why he
0:12.1	strongly disagrees with Jonathan Glazer's speech.
0:15.2	And we hear about a little known story about an alternative Zion in Texas. It's unholy. I'm
0:22.7	Inate Levy of Channel 12 in television. And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.
0:39.8	Unholy, two Jews on the news.
0:42.5	Yeah, in a way this week,
0:47.1	a slight sort of hint of what life was like before five months ago when we would quite often have sort of cultural figures on the podcast.
0:51.7	This week we're allowing some of that light back in, uh, interviews
0:55.8	coming up with two really interesting people, uh, Rachel Cockrell, the writer and Danny Cohen
1:00.9	movie producer. And yet, of course, uh, Danny Cohen is going to be a more newsy, timely guess
1:06.8	than probably either he or we anticipated will come on to all of that.
1:11.5	But actual news...
1:12.4	There's no just culture stories anymore, right?
1:15.2	It always has to connect somehow with current events and what's going on.
1:19.5	Yeah, and the Oscars was...
1:20.9	I know there were people who was putting on the Oscars as a form of escapism.
1:24.9	There were people who said, you know, I've been doing news for five months.
1:28.2	I'm just going to put my feet up, watch the Oscars. It's going to be Barbie and a bit of glamour.
1:32.7	And I'm going to take my mind off everything. And in a way, this was almost, you know, the point
1:38.4	always of Jonathan Glazer's intervention, I think, was to say, no, you know, you can't look away.
1:44.8	Anyway, people couldn't look away.
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