🚨 I’m very proud to be able to say our new series of Coastguard starts this week 🚨 So great to be able to highlight the work of the amazing teams who protect our coastline. Please watch! Sunday, 8pm, C5 Channel 5 Middlechild TV Maritime and Coastguard Agency

⭐️Let's celebrate great storytelling at the 2024 #TRICAwards in partnership with TiVo_UK!

👂Cast your vote to champion a podcast you enjoy from a list including Help I Sexted My Boss ShxtsnGigs & That Peter Crouch Podcast

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Wales is treated like garbage when it comes to UK coverage

Imagine, for a moment, how the UK wide media would react if the Prime Minister had done the following when running to be party leader:

- Taken a donation from a criminal.
- That donation had been 6X the spending limit

The Spectator’s theatre critic has written a piece about how a female professional peer’s appearance made him so horny that he had to go pay for sex with a “buxom” Chinese woman near the train station.

You need to de-phone your life.

Your smartphone doesn't also have to be your calculator, alarm clock, watch, book, compass, music system, camera, GPS system.

Here's five ideas to stop using your phone for absolutely everything.

jamiejbartlett.substack.com/p/how-to-de-ph…

Woke up to the amazing news that our Believe in Magic podcast won Gold at the New York Festivals Radio Awards!!

Big up the whole team, above all Ruth Mayer (producer & co-author) & Innes Bowen (exec).

radio.newyorkfestivals.com/Winners/Winner…

Now there are rumours of Simon Cowell starting a new talent show on Netflix - but want to know more about his other successful talent show, The X Factor? Listen to Offstage: Inside The X Factor. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/off… (please subscribe, rate and review where you listen!)

Anyone else now spend a LOT of their day declining cookies.....

Hey all.

A friend of mine from west Wales was severely injured while out on a stag in Magaluf over the weekend.

He’s currently at the Son Espases University Hospital and the family are URGENTLY looking for somewhere to stay nearby… can anyone help?

Come on X - do your thing👇🏻

In response to a growing dental emergency, I have been following a dental bus which has been visiting food banks in Newcastle.

People can’t access an NHS dentist and going private is out of the question. If something's wrong they have to live in pain, as I told BBC Breakfast...

“My eye is gone. I cannot change that.

But the way these weapons are used?

That can be changed.”

Leidy isn’t letting the story end here. Neither should we.

#ProtectTheProtest and sign here for a Torture-Free Trade Treaty: amn.st/6010Z4mg4 ✊

🚨 TV ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

Tune in to BBC Two this Friday at 9pm to catch the first episode of Pilgrimage. The whole series will be available on BBC iPlayer

I had a great time walking the North Wales Pilgrims' Way with 6 other awesome folk that have become good friends. Tune in!

All 8 eps of The Gatekeepers are now available on @bbcsounds & the usual places. It tells the 30 year story of how social media came to control our information, why it matters, and what's coming next. You think you know the story already - but you probably don't. (I didn't)
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You might have heard me on BBC Radio 5 Live this morning talking about not being ashamed of being scammed - and why telling others is a vital way to prevent more scams in future.

I wrote about that here:
open.substack.com/pub/jamiejbart…

DOUBLE YOUR DONATION FOR ONE WEEK ONLY!! - We’re talking part in Big Give #ArtsForImpact campaign this week, with £10.5K of match funding to unlock!! bit.ly/4cjXoGA

Today is the first day of a new school term in Afghanistan. UNICEF have told the BBC World Service that the Taliban have stopped another 330,000 from going to secondary school - girls are not educated after grade six, when they are about 13.

bbc.com/persian/articl…

Egg freezing is booming.

I have spent time with some of the people who’ve done it, including Vicky Pattison, to find out why they chose a procedure described as expensive and invasive but also empowering.

Egg freezing and Me is available on the iPlayer now.

Over #ramadan UK donors are expected to raise more than a hundred million pounds. With the month set to begin we take a look at the story of one woman who donated £40,000 - 7 years ago to build an orphanage. #bbcnews

w/ Ed Campbell Alex Murray and many more.

Ishrat Baig gave £40,000 to charity Penny Appeal in #Ramadan 2017 to build an orphanage, but says she feels 'cheated' because, seven years later, the job has yet to be finished. #BBCNews
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

So honoured to be given this award and thank you everyone for such kind messages 🙏🏽🌺

Hope we managed to do justice to those who trusted us with telling their stories & to ask the difficult questions of those who need to be held to account 💪🏽