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‘Curious, emotional and partly unsettling’, but most importantly ‘recommended’. Thanks Merih!

It was a pleasure to work on this with Esther Addley, Helen Pidd and Eli Block. And to meet Khalil in the end too What a story to be able to tell - about migration, its sometimes tragic ends as well as its happier beginnings, and ultimately about the power of stories themselves

Writing a book, watching it go out into the world, it can be pretty lonely. So what a joy to receive a postcard - an actual printed thing - from a stranger who enjoyed it. Thank you T!

This week the UK agreed to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. So it’s a good time listen back to this journey of a 2022 Today in Focus ep made w/ michael safi Sami Kent @philippesands Phil Maynard about the history of this long-running legal battle: theguardian.com/news/audio/202…

Found this moving to watch, these last moments of Açık Radyo on air, a station I've listened to so much over the years, even played to my boy so he hears more Turkish at home. Good radio is rare, even more so in Turkey - what a shame to shut it down. But I'm sure it's not the end

Cumhuriyet Bayramı kutlu olsun - today Turkey turns 101, to millions of flags, balloons and the old playbook of patriotic songs. To learn a little more about its first 100 years, you can order The Endless Country, my personal history of Turkey, and memories of celebrations past

Tough luck Leo!

You wouldn’t know - if you didn’t pay attention to how authoritarian countries actually work - the shades and textures of them, how they can move into darker places, become evermore brazen. Basically, how they can break the heart again and again and again.

The great Today In Focus team of Helen Pidd @samikent and Alex Atack made an episode about Max and did him proud. You can listen to it here: theguardian.com/news/audio/202…

What an unexpected midweek treat to see The Endless Country nominated by Historia – the HWA. Thank you so much to the judges!

Yikes! Thanks judges - see you all in November!