A rare recent interview with Lord Weidenfeld

The publisher and philanthropist Lord Weidenfeld has died in London at the age of 96.

He founded publishing company Weidenfeld & Nicolson with Nigel Nicolson in 1949, after working for the BBC, and remained its chairman.

Lord Weidenfeld emigrated to London after fleeing the Nazis in Austria and later became a British citizen.
He recently set up a scheme, Operation Safe Havens, to help Syrian Christians fleeing violence in the Middle East.

Lord Weidenfeld spoke on the Today programme in March 2015 about the record high number of anti-Semitic incidents reported in the UK in 2014 and the importance of peace in the Middle-East.