What Is This War Really About?

Amol and Nick discuss how the war in Israel and Gaza shows two
competing versions of history. They look at what’s at stake and
why it matters.


They are joined in The Today Podcast studio by historian Niall
Ferguson to discuss how critical a moment this is for the region
and wider world.


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The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson, both
presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the UK’s most
influential radio news programme. Amol was the BBC’s media editor
for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he’s
also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick has
presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the BBC’s
political editor for ten years before that and also previously
worked as ITV’s political editor.


The producers are Tom Smithard and Stephanie Mitcalf. The editors
are Jonathan Aspinwall and Louisa Lewis.


The executive producer is Owenna Griffiths. The Today Podcast
music is composed by Nick Foster and Paddy Fletcher.