Cole Moreton
@ColeMoreton
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An Interviewer of the Year at the Press Awards, Arias gold winner for Radio 4, Pause for Thought with Zoe Ball on R2, happy to help you tell your story
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Joined March 2009
Where is the symbol we can use to show welcome? How about this?
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What foolish person decided the best front man for a hugely controversial revamp of Welsh rugby was an Englishman? #prfail /
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I'm over there a bit more than over here these days. Come and say hello
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The men, women and children risking their lives to cross the Channel in small boats are not aliens, invaders, migrants or some other lesser category of human to be dismissed. They are us. This is a true story.
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Up early to go into Broadcasting House and do a Pause for Thought, about this geezer. One for everyone who is missing someone. https://t.co/Um2Es3iSJe
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Yes, I actually liked food that I got at school," says Nick Robinson on Today. Yes, I would hope so, at a school whose fees are currently £6K a term.
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Dad's funeral has now been confirmed as 1pm on Friday 28th Feb at Greenacres, North Weald. https://t.co/lfVlccjFFJ The service will be video cast for those unable to attend. Please let me or my sister know if you are planning to come.
greenacresgroup.co.uk
Epping Living Memorial Park is in the heart of the Essex countryside, offering a prestigious 52-acre venue amidst woodland and parkland that’s perfect for services, pilgrimage and remembrance.
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Feeling honoured to be quoted at length by one of my literary heroes, Colm Tóibín, who draws on Hungry for Home in this piece for the London Review of Books. Thanks for the tip off @VaughanSRoberts
https://t.co/wbeCO6jQcv
lrb.co.uk
In 1954, the islanders left the Great Blasket. It has been empty since then. What does ‘empty’ mean? What happens...
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Anyone else seen #Conclave at @cineworld? We did tonight in Eastbourne and it was so dark and poorly focussed I felt I had to say something. Projectionist maintained it was "the director's vision". I really doubt that. Any thoughts?
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Crikey. Interviewing in two languages and translating simultaneously. World class by @alexaljoe
What an impressive piece of interviewing this is from @alexaljoe. To have the poise to speak in two languages simultaneously, remembering the answers and translating for the audience at home, all when live on camera is remarkable.
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Trump is a serious danger and we all need him to lose.
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The magnificent #SusanSarandon is the subject of the first true short story of the new series of #CanWeTalk. We talked about her life, passions and campaigning and she shared a jaw dropping memory of her relationship with #DavidBowie at the very end of his life. (1)
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Yet more proof that Kirsty Young is the best interviewer on air. Fantastic. #miranda #youngagain
bbc.co.uk
Listen live to Radio 4 on BBC Sounds
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Well this is a first. Never thought I'd agree with George Carey.
theguardian.com
Exclusive: George Carey’s position in stark contrast to that of current head of C of E and that of Islam and the Catholic church
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I wanted to message or call him today to tell him about the latest developments, which are significant. I couldn't, though. He's not with us any more. Such a shame. He was brilliant. When he died I wrote this for the Sindy.
independent.co.uk
Heartbreak has been the subject of so many awful songs that it's tempting to take it lightly. Then, suddenly, it happens to you. Cole Moreton reflects on the appalling human capacity for feeling...
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In the late Nineties I worked on this story with a brilliant young man called Owen Cahillane, who had come from the States to spend a while with me at the Independent on Sunday. I know it's very far from being the main point of this big and important story, but (1)
Britain ceded sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius but will retain use of the strategic airbase on Diego Garcia, jointly operated with the United States https://t.co/PmjFNwzl5M
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A thought I had for anyone trying to cope with kids leaving for university or elsewhere, and for any kids wondering why their parents are in bits. #pausefofthought #bbcradio2
https://t.co/cwFdEuSwGy
bbc.co.uk
Cole Moreton joins Scott Mills for today's Pause for Thought.
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A thought I had for anyone trying to cope with kids leaving for university or elsewhere, and for any kids wondering why their parents are in bits. #pausefofthought #bbcradio2
https://t.co/cwFdEuSwGy
bbc.co.uk
Cole Moreton joins Scott Mills for today's Pause for Thought.
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Goodnight #HerbieFlowers and thank you for so much great music. Here is the bass that played the riff to Walk on the Wild Side and which he played one memorable afternoon together at his home in Ditchling a decade ago. A truly lovely man.
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