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edgar maddicott

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Radio Producer, @BBCRadio4 / @bbcworldservice. BBC Radio Awards: Best Technical Production 2019.

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📻 Tom Lee tells Mobeen Azhar the moving story of his life with the little-known musical prodigy Arthur Russell and his mission to share this rare talent with the world bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

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When Mo’min Swaitat unearthed a vast trove of forgotten Palestinian cassettes - a yellow tape opened up a world of underground music. But could he track down who’d made it? Listen to his story on #LivesLessOrdinary

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In 1951, Greenland native Helene Thiesen was just seven years old when two Danish men knocked at the family home. That moment would shape the rest of her life bbc.in/3Kh3YSS

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Oscar-nominated screenwriter Lesley Paterson funded her 16-year campaign to make 'All Quiet on the Western Front' by winning triathlons against impossible odds Listening to an inspiring conversation between ⁦Mobeen Azhar⁩ and ⁦Lesley Paterson⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

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Hi Francesco Cacciatore I’m a producer at BBC World Service and my colleague Laura Thomas is eager to speak to you about ‘Stay Behind’ operations in Euro countries. Are you able to chat to her about it? Follow me and I’ll DM you her contact. Thanks 🙏

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📻 “I bumped up into a passenger. She recognised me…I thought that was it, I was just getting caught at that moment.” How tricks he picked up from the hit US TV show Prison Break helped Jaivet Ealom make an audacious escape from Manus Island Jo Fidgen bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

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This story presented by ⁦Mobeen Azhar⁩ is a deeply moving, and inspiring one, a must listen. Richard Fierro tried for years to put what he’d seen at war behind him. 🎧🎧 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

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After military deployment, Richard developed PTSD that took him years to manage. Then one night, it all came flooding back when an attacker burst into a club he and his family were in. He decided to act - and became the hero of the Club Q shooting 👇 bbc.in/3UTIWwz

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📻 ‘I saw the muzzle flashes and I could smell the gunpowder… It was like, if I don’t stop this guy, it’s going to continue. I have to stop this.’ Richard Fierro the hero of the Club Q shooting tells Mobeen Azhar his story on Outlook. #ColoradoSprings bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

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🔴 GI-TOC appeals to the Algerian judicial system to expedite and conclude the criminal case against its Senior Analyst #RaoufFarrah, 100 days since his imprisonment at the Boussouf detention facility in Constantine, #Algeria. #ResearchIsNotACrime globalinitiative.net/announcements/…

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1) The life-changing power of teachers: a thread 🧵 Katriona O'Sullivan Katriona O’Sullivan loved her parents, so it was a big shock when at six years old she found her dad – blue, on the bed, overdosed on heroin.

1) The life-changing power of teachers: a thread 🧵 <a href="/katrionaos/">Katriona O'Sullivan</a>
Katriona O’Sullivan loved her parents, so it was a big shock when at six years old she found her dad – blue, on the bed, overdosed on heroin.
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🎧 In 1982, two boys, Chris Strompolos and Eric Zala, 10 and 11, started a crazy mission: to recreate Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark - on their pocket money. Listen to the story of the greatest fan-film ever made… India Rakusen bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

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Indiana Jones is one of Hollywood's biggest franchises. In 1982, two boys in Mississippi, aged 10 and 11, decided to remake Raiders of the Lost Ark, shot-for-shot, in their back garden... on their pocket money bbc.in/3CECWiV

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Family secrets and a moment in history: a thread 🧵 @laseletzky. Leta McCollough Seletzky always knew her father was the “kneeling man” in this iconic photo, tending to Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s head wound just seconds after his assassination. 1/15

Family secrets and a moment in history: a thread 🧵 @laseletzky. Leta McCollough Seletzky always knew her father was the “kneeling man” in this iconic photo, tending to Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s head wound just seconds after his assassination. 1/15
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Tasoula Hadjitofi went on a decade-long journey to uncover a shady network looting Cyprus’s most sacred relics. But she would first have to learn from the criminals in order to catch them 👇 🎧 Part one of this two-part podcast: bbc.in/3tJCCid

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In 2016, Jenny Söderqvist and Helene Åberg’s car exploded in the middle of the vast Kalahari desert. The two Swedes would spend the next five days and nights lost in the wilderness stalked by lions until their salvation appeared in a tin of Spam 🎧 bbc.in/3yuma7E

In 2016, Jenny Söderqvist and Helene Åberg’s car exploded in the middle of the vast Kalahari desert.

The two Swedes would spend the next five days and nights lost in the wilderness stalked by lions until their salvation appeared in a tin of Spam

🎧 bbc.in/3yuma7E