On #WindrushDay Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 we also remember 66 Polish refugees who were on the ship that made British history. Survivors of Hitler’s war, Stalin’s Gulag and an escape that had taken them from Siberia, through Iran to the Caribbean. Our history is richer than we realise.

Wedding trumpets in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. You can hear them on BBC Radio 3 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00….

“Sounds of Wild Poland”, this week’s instalment of BBC Radio 3’s The Essay, treats listeners to an atmospheric soundscape. 🖊️ @annaleszkie newstatesman.com/culture/radio-…

Thank you Simon

The New Statesman Monica Whitlock @annaleszkie This was an outstanding radio series - beautiful, magical, haunting, inspiring. Thank you so much.

Harmonising wolves, burrowing boars, talkative shrews & a 'thrush nightingale' replying to whistles of the remarkable sound recordist of Polish forests, Izabel Dluzyk. As the producer Monica Whitlock says, Izabel did not let lack of sight hold her back... bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Tomorrow on iPlayer - the result of a years-long investigation by Chris Clements & Monica Whitlock. A gruelling investigation into modern slavery and human trafficking in Britain. PD Rachel Coburn 📺 BBC One Scotland at 21:00. 📺 BBC Two at 23:05. 📻 BBC Radio 4 & Sounds.

Delighted to have contributed music to the telling of this important and little-known story revealing the dark underside and terrible human cost of the scallop fishing industry produced by Monica Whitlock bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

I just listened to this: a really powerful piece of reporting by Monica Whitlock for File on 4. The stories she gathered from people who came to this country and worked in the fishing industry are shocking. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

.BBC Sounds Invisible Souls uncovers the exploitation of fishers from the Philippines, Ghana and Sri Lanka by a Scottish company. Despite years of waiting and investigations, justice remains elusive. Listen and support the fight against modern slavery 👇 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Afternoon listening: this powerful and emotional edition of Crossing Continents ⁦BBC Radio 4⁩ ⁦BBC Sounds⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

With every warm wish for Valentina’s speedy recovery

در جریان ۱۶روز مبارزه با خشونت‌ علیه زنان، یک مستند عالیِ دیگر از بی‌بی‌سی را با هم بشنویم. روایت زندگیِ روزمره‌ی یکی از دانش‌آموزان شجاع ما در افغانستان با صدای دخترم عسل: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3… Thanks to Monica Whitlock for this powerful documentary! BBC Radio 4 #16days

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She shouldn’t be heard She shouldn’t be seen. A powerful day by day account of an Afghan girl. A glimpse of a deep tragedy of today’s Afghanistan. Thank you ⁦Monica Whitlock⁩ #Afghanistan bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

More pertinent than ever. By @whitlockmonica. One young woman's story from Taliban controlled Afghanistan Source: BBC search.app/zhC8MtYnpScgNp…

Brave Afghan women in western Herat province are protesting against the Taliban’s recent ban on women’s education.

Leila's diary is top BBC Pick of the Week. Listen to her and you'll know why bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… #Afghanistan #POTW #AfghanWomen #CrossingContinents