Reeta Chakrabarti
@reetacbbc
BBC newswoman; Chancellor of @YorkStJohn; & on 2023 judging panels for #BBCNSSA, also @laurelprize, and Lucy Cavendish #FictionPrize
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news 26-11-2009 15:39:19
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I’m currently out in Jerusalem working with Reeta Chakrabarti - here’s our report for BBC News last night youtu.be/zbt6b1Kpl44?si…
At Ten, we have all the latest on #Israel #Gaza with Reeta Chakrabarti Plus #BiancaWilliams #ChampionsLeague & more. @bbcnews @bbcone #BBCNewsTen
Huge congratulations to Naomi Wood on her win for a wonderful, witty and winning story:
Bestselling author Naomi Wood wins 2023 BBC national short story award theguardian.com/books/2023/sep…
A round of applause to the winner of the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University - bestselling author Naomi Wood for her story ‘Comorbidities’🥂
#BBCNSSA #ShortStories
Huge congratulations to Naomi Wood for her win tonight - and hats off to all the short-listed winners - this was a stellar year
Find out the winners of the BBC National Short Story Award & Young Writers' Award live on #BBCFrontRow at 7:15. With Tom Sutcliffe & judges Reeta Chakrabarti, Jessie Burton,Roddy Doyle, Okechukwu Nzelu, Katie Thistleton & Alexis Caught. #bbcnssa #bbcywa + Cambridge University bbc.in/3RGlYK5
Five of the wonderful winners on this year’s The Laurel Prize Kris Johnson, Yvonne Reddick, Luke Samuel Yates, Holly Hopkins, Zaffar Kunial. Congratulations!
Today at 3.30 pm (BST)🚨
Ceremony at the Howard Assembly Room, part of BBC Contains Strong Language Festival. w/ Simon Armitage, @pascalepetitpoet, Reeta Chakrabarti.
Readings: Liza Katz Duncan, Jorie Graham, Holly Hopkins, ZaffarKunial, Yvonne Reddick & some longlist!
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Three days away 🌱
Our 2023 Ceremony in Leeds this Fri, at 3.30 pm
w/ Simon Armitage, @pascalepetitpoet, Nick Laird, Reeta Chakrabarti. Readings from Liza Katz Duncan, Jorie Graham, Holly Hopkins, Zaffar Kunial, Yvonne Reddick. Plus some of longlist 🌍
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And we all had a wonderful evening too - great to be part of it Hodder & Stoughton Clive Myrie
Feeling, frankly, reasonably overwhelmed by this review of The Art of Explanation in the The Guardian. Thanks to Luca Turin for such generous words (and for drawing attention to how Steely Dan fits into the explanation equation). theguardian.com/books/2023/sep…
NEXT WEEK 📣
On Friday 22 Sep at 3.30 pm (BST), in Howard Assembly Room, Leeds a part of BBC Contains Strong Language Festival.
Expect words of power, beauty, sadness, hope, & activism, w/ Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, & judges Pascale Petit FRSL🐅🌴🐆🌳🦌, Nick Laird, & Reeta Chakrabarti.
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What an extraordinary resilience and spirit this young boy has. Do watch this piece by Orla Guerin - how 11 year old Ahmed, who was born blind, will not let the civil war in his country Yemen defeat him