Touring Under Occupation: Checkpoints and Shows

Alaa describes logistics, checkpoints and improvisation involved in touring Palestinian comedy across restrictions.

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Donald Trump brings his particular brand of terrible speeches to the billionaires and bankers at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Nish and Coco try to work out how Keir Starmer can keep on track when facing the threat of US tariffs over Greenland as well as criticism of a lease deal with the Chagos Islands - which the US had previously praised.

Liam Thorp, the Liverpool Echo’s Political Editor, is on hand to break down Labour’s big plan to make homes warmer, the fortunes of Reform and the latest delay to the Hillsborough Law

Plus comedian Alaa Shehada, fresh from his show ‘The Horse of Jenin’, talks to Nish and Coco about the ‘Palestine Comedy Club’, a documentary which follows a group of Palestinians as they take their comedy show on tour in an occupied state.

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Liam Thorp - Political Editor, Liverpool Echo

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Alaa Shehada - Comedian

USEFUL LINKS

Palestine Comedy Club collective

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