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Thank you⁩ ⁦BBC Radio 4 Today⁩ ⁦Mishal Husain⁩ for breaking the news #MuseumoftheYear 2024 ⁦Art Fund⁩ bbc.com/news/articles/…

As discussed this morning 🔽

I’ll be part of this later, talking to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Stella Assange. Livestream details 🔽
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A colleague has got in touch to point me to another chapter of the 20th century past - Jewish refugees from the Nazis fleeing to Central Asia, and the music they made there. Michael Rossi made this for BBC Radio 3 about the ‘lost songs’ 🔽
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

There is so much more I could have said .. Uzbekistan is where Ulugh Beg’s observatory was mapping stars in the 15th century, and the native region of the man from whom we get the word ‘algorithm’. But mainly this is about travels with my mother!

Audio book recording! Including last minute looking up of whether (eg) a cable saying ‘Stalag III D’ is definitely to be read as ‘3’, not ‘111’. And other points which jump out more in this format :)
‘Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence’ is out June 6th

Find it here 🔽 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Please share widely - the second year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize. We’re thrilled to have the wonderful Philip Pullman as a judge - Martha was such a fan of his books

This happened today .. appreciative and rather overwhelmed as I am, I do want to say that in broadcasting, every ‘individual’ contribution comes amid a team effort. So - thank you colleagues and friends BBC Radio 4 Today BBC Radio 4
And of course thank you The Voice of the Listener and Viewer (VLV)

ICYM the debate: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Some of the experiences listeners sent in after our earlier shout out are really sobering .. tonight we’ll get a first hand account from one panellist, as well as hear what shop staff go through - and a policing perspective. 8pm R4/Sounds

Bruises and broken ribs - Israel's unexplained prison deaths bbc.in/3UaWbsT

‘It’s gone to press’ 4th Estate Books tell me (a glimpse of the contents page below). Can be ordered now for delivery June 6th - the story of four lives amid the 20th century re-shaping of South Asia 🔽

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/broken…

Ahead of the PM's speech on welfare reform, Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride tells #R4Today he 'backs' the judgement of GPs regarding sick notes, but 'work-based conversations' are missing from the signing-off process.

'I believe that you can't just stop.'

Michael Palin speaks to @BBCNickRobinson on #R4Today about returning to work for a new series following the loss of his wife Helen.

Sir Michael is back on our screens with a travel documentary about Nigeria.

On the toxicity issue raised by Dr Cass this morning, it's worth repeating: no major publisher would touch Hannah's book in spite of the fact that it was approved by the BBC as a piece of impartial reporting

“We are not fine” has become the official Eid al-Fitr greeting for the residents of Gaza. Usually, the markets are filled with the sound of Eid takbirs echoing in the city streets. This year there is no sweets or joy, only pain, sadness, and mourning.

The Anja Niedringhaus photographs in this piece are breathtaking. Ten years after her murder, there is a book and an exhibition, with the collaboration of ⁦Kathy Gannon⁩ 🔽 edition.cnn.com/interactive/20…

‘Here to stay. Here to fight.’

#Defiance : Fighting the Far Right examines the political and social struggles faced by Britain’s Asian community between 1976 and 1981.

The series starts Monday 8th April, 9pm on Channel 4 Riz Ahmed GroupM Motion Entertainment