BBC journalist. World Service/Newshour. Radio 4/The World Tonight.
London
Joined July 2010
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Jonathan Fenton-Fischer retweeted
Striking photo released by the White House of @KatieZacharia entering her first pree conference as Press Secretary.
Look at all the reporters facial expressions
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Iranian special forces planning an operation that involves parking their bombs in a village overnight but still drawing the line at copyright infringement is a little bit funny
One detail we noticed: the van being inspected today by police and a bomb-disposal robot near RAF Fairford appears to be branded FUEL2YOU with a red logo, while the original FUEL2U vans use a green logo.
FUEL2U is a company that delivers fuel directly to businesses, farms and other customers, using mobile fuel-delivery vans.
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Unbelievable display of improvisation. His trumpet gave out in the middle of the national anthem, so he just kept going without it.
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Catherine Ringer avait fait de sa voix un théâtre et de chaque chanson une liberté. Avec Fred Chichin, elle avait donné aux Rita Mitsouko un son et des couleurs sans pareils.
Elle était inclassable, irrévérencieuse, profondément française.
Elle danse. Elle rayonne.
Elle manquera.
Jonathan Fenton-Fischer retweeted
The camera panning from the clock at 0:07 to Pierce Brosnan.
Absolute cinema.
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I used to save clippings of Clive James from the Observer. This one is quite apt.
The #BBC announces it is axing #SkiSunday, so #BBCBreakfast runs a long item lamenting that the programme is being scrapped!
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A big ‚thank you’ to the lovely ppl from @BBCRadio4 for inviting me to talk about my new book ‚Dear Britain’ which has become quite a bestseller in Germany.
So we also talked about why and how the Germans still do love this country so much. Incl. me ;).
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002zr…
Jonathan Fenton-Fischer retweeted
'Act of national self-harm' is a good description. UKRI has simply lost its mind - and the collapse of our most important science infrastructure won't be easy to reverse if it's allowed to happen. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y6…
Jonathan Fenton-Fischer retweeted
🚨 WATCH: Count Binface is interviewed live on Sky News by Jon Craig
Jonathan Fenton-Fischer retweeted
It’s genuinely hard to think of a programme that better encapsulates ‘public service broadcasting’ than Radio 4’s The World Tonight.
I could certainly come up with a very long list of shows which could equally sit on any commercial outlet and that - even if gaining higher audiences - the BBC would not be the worse off without.
Respect Matt Brittin and the BBC does need to make tough choices but hope there is a rethink here.
Jonathan Fenton-Fischer retweeted
Very sad to hear The World Tonight is being axed by the BBC. Newshour is a great programme but it isn’t a substitute.
Radio 4 and its audience won’t have a domestic facing outlet after 1800.
I hope audiences now understand the challenges facing the BBC.
Jonathan Fenton-Fischer retweeted
Yes, the BBC has to live within its means but if being a public service broadcaster is central to its mission The World Tonight is not the programme to cut. It takes a world view & intelligently & has been a nightly briefing for people like me since I discovered it at university.
Jonathan Fenton-Fischer retweeted
Very sad to learn that Radio 4's The World Tonight is to be killed off in the latest round of BBC cuts. It has a long and honourable history as one of the more thoughtful BBC news programmes and I am proud to have been associated with it for more than twenty years.
Jonathan Fenton-Fischer retweeted
Graham Greene once anonymously entered a Spectator competition to write the opening paragraph of a Graham Greene novel. He came third.
Jonathan Fenton-Fischer retweeted
The British Museum has cancelled a Jewish Culture Month event on Ancient Israel and Judah due to ‘security concerns’.
If publicly-funded institutions cannot host such events without folding to pressure, serious questions arise about that funding.
@britishmuseum @George_Osborne
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NEW: On first day as BBC director general, Matt Brittin had to walk past striking journalists amid claims of low morale.
A warning of things to come with 10% cuts coming.
And a big hint from Brittin about a shift to new platforms, YouTube, TikTok...
theguardian.com/media/2026/m…
