This is a must-listen programme on #musicians in #Gaza, doing what they can to let the music play on, made by Tim Whewell broadcast on BBC Radio 4: tinyurl.com/mxuyc54j. PS Our current series will feature ney-player #FarisIshaq from Bethlehem, on 4th Dec.

Singing in Gaza: 🎶"Amid the rubble, in makeshift tents, children in Gaza are singing - & practising violin, guitar & traditional instruments such as ‘oud. The sessions are organised by the local branch of the Palestinian national music conservatory..." bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Reporter Tim Whewell travels through Poland and western Ukraine to try to find out what really happened in 1943, and ask whether Poland and Ukraine can ever lay a fiercely-contested history to rest. BBC Radio 4 Karolina Romanowska bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

The tens of thousands of ghosts haunting #Poland’s relations with its ally, #Ukraine bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

An excellent radio report - "Poland's Goast - Ukraine's Heroes" by Tim Whewell - bringing to English-speaking listeners around the world the issue of the Volyn massacre and the heroisation by Ukraine of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - the formation responsible for the genocide

An excellent documentary on the Volyn Massacre by BBC’s Tim Whewell. Sheds more light on Polish-Ukrainian complicated history, Bandera, UPA etc

Hamas was opposed to their music and the Israelis bombed their instruments and installations but the children of #gaza are still singing. Beautiful & heartbreaking by ⁦Tim Whewell⁩ ⁦Penny Murphy⁩ ⁦BBC World Service⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

Na BBC pojawił się wyważony, a przy tym sympatyzujący z argumentami przeciwników gloryfikacji UPA materiał o Rzezi Wołyńskiej i problemie ekshumacji autorstwa Tim Whewell. Cytowana jest m.in. Karolina Romanowska, Leon Popek, Volodymyr Viatrovych Serhii Plokhy, a także ja sam.

Celebrations in Homs, #Syria today as buses bring another 124 families home fromcamps after years of displacement. Some haven’t seen their home city for 14 years. But parts of Homs in ruins and there are few jobs.With 7m Syrians internally displaced, resettlement is a huge task.

A castle of clotted cream? In #Homs, post-war reconstruction has barely begun, but the city patissiers build their famous halawet el jibn delicacy sturdily and high from a mixture of semolina and cheese حمص#

With ⁦Lucy Ash⁩ - a story of religious conversion you probably haven’t heard about before… bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

As Donald Trump says he’ll lift sanctions on #Syria, what are the prospects for bringing home the millions of Syrians forced to flee during the civil war? My report from #Homs #حمص bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

13m Syrians - half the population - left their homes during #Syria’s 13-year civil war. 7m were internally displaced. 6m fled abroad. Bringing them home is perhaps the biggest challenge facing Syria's new rulers. Tim Whewell follows returnees to #Homs to see what’s they find…

Half a million Syrian servicemen were sacked when the Assad regime fell. They’ve got no income, no prospects. Could their discontent eventually fuel an insurgency like that in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein? My report from #Damascus bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

They even hit the zoo. The stories of the civilians who chose to stay in one of #Ukraine 's most bombed cities - and try to lead a normal life - in Albina Kovalyova Albina Kovalyova 's moving film youtube.com/watch?v=AlrrWx…

A People's History of Gaza - a great new listen from Tim Whewell bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

A moving human story! ↔️ Here is Tim Whewell , presenter of 'A People's History of Gaza' (documentary podcast is on BBC Sounds) in an In-Depth piece: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

“In all an estimated 700,000 Palestinians lost their homes and became refugees as a result of the war of 1948-49; around 200,000 are believed to have crowded into that tiny coastal corridor.” Deeply moving piece by Tim Whewell bbc.com/news/articles/…

“When we were younger, storks decorated the sky.” The back-story of #Gaza since 1948 - often tragic, sometimes surprising, occasionally inspirational. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

This version of my 'People's History of Gaza' should be available everywhere. Worth a listen to understand what its people have been through since the Strip came into being in 1948 podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/a-p…