Journalist working for the BBC. Mover and shaker
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💀 Did you know the first Day of the Dead parade was only 10 years ago?
🇲🇽 It was in Mexico City and inspired by the opening scene of the 2015 James Bond film Spectre
🌼 They even used their props!
📻 #DiaDeMuertos2026 @bbcworldservice bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct8r…
🌍 Ten years ago, a new team joined the #Olympics - the Refugee Olympic Team
🇰🇪 I spoke to Rose Lokonyen, who was selected from a refugee camp in Kenya
🇧🇷 A few months later, she was running the 800m in Rio with Caster Semenya
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⚓️ In 2015, the 'holy grail' of shipwrecks was discovered off the coast of Colombia
🪙 The San José sank more than 300 years ago & treasure on board is worth an estimated $18 billion
🇨🇴 I spoke to former President @JuanManSantos for @bbcworldservice
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🌊 Wait... the Mexican wave wasn't invented in Mexico?
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🇩🇪 As other countries pledge to increase their nuclear capacities, in 2023, Germany shut down its last nuclear power plant
⚛️ There were protests and celebrations
🌱 Both sides claim to be green
📻 10 Fights that made the Green Movement @BBCRadio4 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002ym…
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On 10 July 1976, there was an explosion at a chemical factory near Seveso, northern Italy.
🎧 Hear the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there bbc.in/4vg5JmU
🇮🇹 50 years ago, there was an explosion at a chemical factory near Seveso, Italy
☁️ A cloud containing a poisonous gas called dioxin spread over the town
⚠️ But residents weren't told of the danger for days
📻 I spoke to a former mayor @bbcworldservice bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct98…
⚾️ In 1981, at a baseball game in California, a cheerleader got fans to stand up + sit down in sections around the stadium
🙌 The cheer spread to other sports, inc the '86 #WorldCup in Mexico
🌊 + became known as the MEXICAN WAVE (soz Krazy George)
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👍 Hopenhagen or Brokenhagen? 👎
🌍 At COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009, world leaders had high hopes of securing a historic climate deal
🤔 But it didn't quite go to plan...
👀 The US + South African negotiators take us behind the scenes
📻 @BBCRadio4 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002yc…
💡 It's the '90s, & in a tiny office in London, a group of big thinkers is publishing some radical ideas... & about to have a very public falling out!
📗 This is the story of an influential green magazine and the man who created it: Teddy Goldsmith
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⛴️ In 1971, a group of activists set sail to Alaska on a rickety fishing boat in attempt to stop a nuclear weapons test
🌱 Spoiler alert: They failed. But it led to the start of @Greenpeace
📻Ten Fights That Made the Green Movement @BBCRadio4 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002yb…
📻 Listen to the full series here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m001d…
🎙️ Presented by @BBCJustinR and produced by me, @ellielhouse and @AlixPickles
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Why did XR occupy Greenpeace? What made Obama gatecrash a secret meeting at COP? Why did some environmentalists denounce others as ‘eco terrorists’?
New series with the brilliant @BBCJustinR on BBC Sounds now 🌱
🦴 In 1974, geologist Dr Jim Bowler found a skeleton in New South Wales
🇦🇺 'Mungo Man' turned out to be 42,000 years old + the discovery rewrote Australia's history
📻 I spoke to him for the @bbcworldservice :
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🙏 Thanks so much for featuring my doc about Thomas Keneally on @BBCRadio4's Pick of the Week @DrMatthewSweet !
🎙️ Totally agree with your description - he was warm and mischievous - the ideal subject!
📻 Listen to the whole programme here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct8l…
🇦🇺 Come join me as I spend a few days with Thomas Keneally, the author of Schindler's List, in Sydney
🏖️ He gives me a tour of his neighbourhood, takes me on a hike + shows me where he writes
📕 I meet the family + we talk about writing into his 90s
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The invention of the mobility scooter🎧 Hear the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there bbc.in/4cqf5H4
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In 1898, Florence Nightingale invited the Aga Khan around to her London home for tea.
🎧 Hear the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there bbc.in/4qXyanE