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BBC Radio Producer

Joined August 2014
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I've scripted & presented a @BBCRadio3 show, 'Digging for Words' 9.45pm tonight/online now🎙️Drawing on my PhD & BBC New Generation Thinker work, a mossary of linguistic invention celebrates Nature Matters, Britain's first anth. of nature poets of colour🙌🏾🌱bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00298f…
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Award-winning YA authors @ManonSteffanRos, Alex Wheatle, Anthony Horowitz and @FrancesHardinge joined @tds153 at @hayfestival to dig into the stories and issues inspiring young readers. Don't miss it! 📻 @BBCRadio4 tonight at 7.15pm & on @bbcsounds 🎧 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001zlz…

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It was great to meet the legendary Nikki Giovanni for last night's Front Row, and particularly hearing the story of how her tattoo of 2Pac came about bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xm2…
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How was Kazuo Ishiguro's latest project sparked by #DesertIslandDiscs? The Nobel Prize-winning author tells @ShahidhaBari about writing song lyrics for jazz singer Stacey Kent, 20 years after picking her track on the @BBCRadio4 show. Listen now on @bbcsounds 🎧

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Looking for a Halloween album? @duranduran join @SamiraAhmedUK to discuss theirs. Plus Bosnian-born artist Dobrivoje Beljkasic at 100, @FilkinsDrift walk 870 miles and @sannewman on retelling Orwell’s 1984. All on @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds tonight at 7.15 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ryf…
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On @BBCRadio4 today at 3.30, the next, excellent shortlisted entry in this year's BBC National Short Story Award. The Storm by Nick Mulgrew is evocative, funny and disquieting - and perfectly read by Cokey Falkow. A delight to work with both of them on it bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qf1…
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Listen out! Very proud of the 18th #bbcnssa short story short list. A great collection that will thrill and entertain. Enjoy!
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There's also a brilliant abridgment of Anna Funder's Wifedom about Orwell's often overlooked wife Eileen, still available on @BBCSounds produced by @LizAllard1 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pmb…
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people things they do not want to hear.” wrote George Orwell. It's the dictum at the heart week's Open Book with @chris_power. Another chance to hear (wanted or not) about to start on @BBCRadio4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001q0l…
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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people things they do not want to hear.” wrote George Orwell. It's the dictum at the heart week's Open Book with @chris_power. Another chance to hear (wanted or not) about to start on @BBCRadio4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001q0l…
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I've long loved Bruce Chatwin's ethereal In Patagonia, so am honoured to have brought it to the airwaves and directed it. Stars @russelltovey with a brilliant cast and a lovely adaptation by @SebastinBaczki1 on today at 3pm on @BBCRadio4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pf9…
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Very excited! A pleasure to write and make this and I hope you get a chance to hear it. What an honour to be asked.
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Also includes @Fletchski @PHaynesWriter @nigelproc of @DigbethStories and @FloodgatePress. Plus @AshOfTheShire who did a sterling job of showing us round Middle-earth aka @Sarehole_Mill in Hall Green
On #R4OpenBook @JohnyPitts explores Birmingham's literary heritage and contemporary writing scene with @KitdeWaal, @NatalieMarlow2 & @katemascarenhas. Plus a tour of the childhood home of JRR Tolkien & a visit to the city’s new independent bookshop, Voce.
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Replying to @elizabday
@elizabday celebrates one of her favourite writers Elizabeth Jane Howard. @ArtemisCooper @stacey_halls and Maria Rejt discuss the often underestimated qualities of her writing. Afterwards catch the adaptation of The Cazalets - all available on @BBCSounds
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