⁩Alumni weekend: Let’s fill the Sheldonian Theatre with 80s pop video vibes. 🎭From James Bond credit sequences to the Beatles at Stowe concert tape am giving lecture on culture, politics, British identity and social change. ⁦University of Oxford Sun Sep 22 10am alumni.ox.ac.uk/events/meeting…

Made an In the Studio with Architect Daniel Libeskind for ⁦BBC World Service⁩. Produced by the ace @livski. First broadcast on Aug 27th and on the link from then… bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

"”It’s an enjoyable job, but it’s not easy and it’s really undervalued financially and I just thought 'it has to stop'," she told the BBC.” Congratulations to the women who persisted. bbc.com/news/articles/…

It was 30 yrs ago next year.. "People had come expecting The Beatles; they saw and heard something more akin to Slade.." #Oasis #oasisreunion #oasis2025 samiraahmed.blog/people-had-com…

I’ve been lucky enough to interview architect Daniel Libeskind several times over the past few years. No matter how much darkness in the world, the experience always leaves me full of joy. Olivia Skinner & my #InTheStudio is out now on BBC World Service or here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

The best thing about being a journalist is the older you get the more you have to draw on.. (private eye letters page)

Been talking Beetlejuice, Batman & the villainous Vulture in Spider-Man Homecoming with the intriguing and talented actor who connects them all. Michael Keaton. For Monday’s BBC Front Row..

Say it three times. Front Row Front Row BBC Front Row Tonight..715pm or on the link afterwards: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Presenter POV in the BBC Front Row studio.. guess who’s in tonight…?

This will be ace…

Wasn’t sure what to expect when I was due to interview Michael Keaton. Which is as it should be. Turned out to be one of the most fun encounters I’ve had.. see what you think: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

IN. THIS. EPISODE... !!!

Counting down to hosting Robin of Sherwood 40th anniversary @bfi panel on Saturday 14th Sept. For which my sister has lent me a mystical medieval manuscript. AKA her teenage scrapbook: (did any of you win a Montego or that place on the Space Shuttle btw?)

Wrote about the 80th commemoration year of WW2, schoolchild war fascination and the complexities of remembering the Pacific War...

Time warps, transvestites & the existential sf of Rocky Horror with Richard O’Brien and Jason Donovan.. for a future ⁦BBC Front Row⁩

Helloo!! I'm back with your show for comments, concerns and insights into BBC News editorial decision making-NewsWatch is back tomorrow. 1130pm Newschannel, BBC1 BBC Breakfast Sat morning 745am is the biggest audience viewing. Or on iplayer after.. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…