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Still banging on about the book at festivals everywhere - do get it to keep elderly relatives quiet over summer - plus thanks to @MatthewStadlen for this interview and there were people there, honest 😉
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Lot of news around but this feels important too.
Yes! We won. All the important bits. I was discriminated against by @CGDev because of my beliefs. A potential job offer and visiting fellowship were withdrawn. My biography was taken down from the website when I tried to assert my rights under the Equality Act (victimisation).
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@nmdacosta @BBCr4today I think you're right Nikki. I had no idea (and frankly I am one of the better informed on this subject) and the producers didn't either. We need to tackle these issues fairly but not from the 'everyone calm down' perspective that fails to note who is violent and who is not.
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On the toxicity issue raised by Dr Cass this morning, it's worth repeating: no major publisher would touch Hannah's book in spite of the fact that it was approved by the BBC as a piece of impartial reporting.
The remarkable @hannahsbee did more than anyone else to raise Qs over NHS' treatment for young people questioning their gender. Brave and dogged reporting over many years for Newsnight & wrote the book while on maternity leave - always focused on welfare of those being treated.
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Great to see so many BBC colleagues at launch of Hannah Barnes book Time to Think - about the collapse of the children’s gender service at Tavistock clinic. ‘Essential reading’ says @maitlis - do BUY IT 💪
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Caroline Flint stayed after she lost her seat and talked to everyone here at Doncaster - student radio, the lot. Calm, measured - constituency MP to the end.
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Given how we ‘fact checked’ Trump, worth saying this is untrue.
Macron on AZ/Oxford: “Today everything suggests that it is almost ineffective for those over 65, and some say over 60.” via @financialtimes @VJMallet.
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Happy birthday to my mum - she’d have been 99 today: an age she wanted to make but couldn’t. My book (which she would not wholly approved of 😳)is a salute to her generation of single mums and a plea for all women to be able to meet, teach, campaign, and just be themselves 💪
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@SteveChalke @BBCr4today Thanks for replying Steve. Will get in touch privately but worth saying publicly the BBC and other responsible organisations cut their ties with Stonewall because of this kind of claim - widely challenged for instance here
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@SteveChalke @BBCr4today Hi Steve -- what is the source for these? As we know from the Samaritans guidelines suicide is almost never the result of one cause - so are we talking about doing further damage to already damaged children?.
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“I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male athlete. But as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.” Congressman @sethmoulton on moral courage and electoral success …
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This man is what the BBC is about - we will miss him hugely.
Folks…that's it from me. Thanks for putting up with me over the years. Its been an absolute privilege . I’m off now for some longer, much longer dog walks….
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This book is even handed and even tempered but all the more devastating for it.
What went wrong at the Tavistock Clinic?. Hannah Barnes, @BBCNewsnight investigations producer and author of Time to Think, tells @JustinOnWeb young people who went to the clinic's Gender Identity Development Service were 'let down' .
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So @BowenBBC and I had a small gathering to celebrate our 40 years in The BBC and here's an historic moment as the wonderful @mariannaspring explains the internet to a sceptic😳
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Tell me you don’t know how to play rugby without telling me you don’t know how to play rugby 🤭.
While considering the @IrishRugby ban on trans women it struck me, why is sport still so fixated on having single gender teams and sports? Isn’t it time to consider mixing genders? If it worked with schools why not sports? This way all gender expressions would be welcome!.
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You have to hand it (again) to @BBCMoreOrLess - they do journalism, fact based and truthful not neutral.
A look at the misinformation being spread about the Cass Review. Well worth a listen for anyone concerned about misinformation or interested in how poor research was discriminatory against gender distressed children who were given a lower quality of care:
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Hannah was easily the most impactful BBC journalist of recent years - deserves every accolade 💪🍹.
Oh my goodness! Absolutely over the moon and honoured to be included in The Sunday Times alternative honours of 2023. Thank you so much to @thetimes. What an incredible end to the year. Wishing everyone a happy, healthy, and peaceful 2024.
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Interesting. We need to discuss these issues rationally and calmly and more often.
Listeners to @BBCr4today might have heard claims about Stonewall’s position on the single sex exemptions to Equality Act 2010. The fact is that Stonewall made repeated calls for those exemptions - which allow for female-only services - to be abolished. (Old 🧵 ⬇️).
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Why might this be?.
Polls suggest that a majority of Americans believe that trans women should not play in women’s sports teams—but that view is rarely heard publicly
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Rory’s book is wonderful - single mums of the 60s we salute you 👏👏👏.
Feeling a bit emotional this morning after reading the great review of my memoir #RuskinPark in the Observer by @TimAdamsWrites and the lovely piece by @JustinOnWeb in the Sunday Times. Please buy a paper - and the book!!
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Essential listening.
Listen now: In an exclusive interview, Professor Kathleen Stock @Docstockk speaks to @Emmabarnett about resigning from her post at the University of Sussex, her experiences while still at the university and the concept of academic freedom
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There's a difference between 'expressing transphobic views' and being accused of expressing them. As a once fine news organisation @NPR ought to know, and ought to care, but sadly doesn't.
J.K Rowling has said publicly that her new book The Ink Black Heart, was not based on her own life, even though some of the events that take place in the story did in fact happen to her as she was writing it.
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Worth a listen for anyone who follows USA affairs.
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This will be fascinating - Hannah is brilliant and diligent and the story hugely important and ignored by people who should have known better.
Some personal news: my book on the Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) will be out in the Spring
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Disgrace that you try to bully and gaslight us after a thoughtful moderate discussion about trans rights and those of others. All views on today including those you don’t like.
Why on earth has @BBCr4today been allowed to become a platform for hatred of #trans people? It was disgraceful to have @JustinOnWeb yet again using insulting language like ‘biological truth’ in his interview with barrister @AdamWagner1 this morning.
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Yes: her book of impartial reportage now shortlisted for major award but not a single other invite. It’s grim.
@hannahsbee @cheltfestivals @cazjwheeler @JustinOnWeb @TheEllieMo Huge kudos to @cheltfestivals for being the only literature festival to have invited Hannah Barnes to talk about 'Time to Think'.
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To be clear: my question this morning to the minister was "who was it who asked for that meeting?".His reply was, "my information is that it was held at the instigation of Ms Gray.".
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So @BowenBBC we started as trainees together this week 34 years ago. You haven’t aged a bit . 😳
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PinkNews bosses accused of sexual misconduct - BBC News
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Fully endorse 😬.
Dear @BBCr4today Justin Webb is not a woman- cis nor trans. He’s not a legal or policy expert. He’s no gender scholar. He’s a guy who gets paid for chatting on the radio. That’s all. His opinions on women’s rights or gender recognition are of no importance at all.
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I’m 60 today - listening to Barclay James Harvest with the family and telling then about when I was a discus Olympian wowing crowds 🤷♀️
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"Three of Stock’s four fellow professors of philosophy at Sussex told me that they supported her academic freedom, but none would say so publicly.".
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If the level of danger is different (I think we know it is) then how is this ‘equality.’ 🤭.
hi @TheAA_UK I am a lone woman whose car has broken down at night in the dark. Your call handler has told me you treat lone women and lone men as exactly the same priority in such circumstances because “that’s equality”.
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Quite literally: on steroids 💪.
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Too often the defence of women's sex based rights is seen as a right wing issue in the US and trans rights as left wing. But on latest #Americast we hear that plenty of left wing women seem pretty cross too 😏.
'They are shocked and disappointed'. Queer Eye’s Bobby Berk tells #Americast that women have attacked him online for supporting trans rights. .
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What right does anyone have to disrupt public transport for any cause? I dunno. But if you're a cleaner heading home after a night shift you might well feel arrogance is a word that comes to mind. As for mis-reading the name: suck it up, I've done worse with @Jeremy_Hunt 😎.
Usual complacent & inadequate treatment of the global environment crisis on @BBCNews @BBCr4today this am, with @JustinOnWeb interviewing re the @ExtinctionR protests yesterday, (inc getting the name of the movement wrong and suggesting ‘arrogance’).
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kudos to Hannah and other @BBCNewsnight colleagues who worked so hard to draw attention to what was happening.
NEW: Tavistock gender identity clinic for children and young people - GIDS - forced to shut over safety fears | News | The Times
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Charlie, my wonderful father in law, vaccinated this evening 👏👏👏
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@rabbisacks @patrickkmaguire Heartfelt condolences to his family. Always felt, when he came into the Today studio, that he was the kindest and most thoughtful of men. He'll be hugely missed.
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Ha ha yes - mum was a snob but a feminist too - she died nearly twenty years ago but nothing about the trans debate would have surprised her 💥.
Loving this wonderful book @JustinOnWeb - 'lavatory' not toilet, 'what' not pardon - very familiar and so much else.
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He’s running (this is a massive volte face).
🚨Gavin Newsome just agreed with Charlie Kirk that men should not be participating in women’s sports because of fairness.
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Meanwhile at a Waitrose near me in south London a woman with ten years service and kids at home tells me she's being put on night shifts and told not to complain. 'If you tell anyone you'll be dismissed instantly.'.
WAVELENGTH INSPIRE SEPT - WITH DAME SHARON WHITE, CHAIR, JOHN LEWIS PARTNERSHIP: This month we go ‘inside' iconic British retailers John Lewis & Waitrose Partnership - one of UK’s most-loved, admired & historically successful organisations. #leadership #leader #execeducation
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It takes no guts to moan about the mainstream media on twitter but a lot of guys to do the work only impartial journalists do.
Police say the group known as ‘Saoradh’ are the political voice of the New IRA. They’ve been the focus of a backlash in Northern Ireland following Lyra McKee’s death. A clip from our piece on @BBCNews tonight
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Why is it stupid or repellant to ask who controls our nuclear arsenal? Staggering unpleasantness from one of the breed of people who snipes from the edges but has nothing more to contribute.
Stupidest or perhaps most repellent question of the day on @BBCr4today by @JustinOnWeb . What happens of there's a nuclear attack on us? @michaelgove rightly slapped him down.
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I hugely (with due modesty) recommend this piece to anyone with a Times sub. Sad that a once great liberal lion is reduced to peddling “ageing well” twaddle for clicks.
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So many Americasts this week you’ll be begging for mercy 🫣💥
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One of Tim Davie's immediate reforms is to stipulate that all pictures of me are replaced by @bbcnickrobinson - i think this an excellent plan and I support it 😳.
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Same on @BBCr4today.
It's a bit weird that the friday before Labour conference as Brexit is at "impasse" according to Theresa May we can't find a senior Labour voice to come on #C4News live tonight.
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When Jeremy and I were trainees we were told to come up with story ideas. His was “is first class travel really worth the money” - Still Un-commissioned I see 🤣.
Living the dream (again) sitting on my bags on the pavement at Heathrow waiting for a plane I might not be able to board… no seats in the terminal. journalism in action
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Worked against Robert when we were kids in former Soviet Union and later Bosnia. Nightmare. He's brave, relentless, organised. He had more hair but that's all that's changed. Still the nicest man you'd ever meet. More deserved awards coming his way and to his team 👏👏👏.
Watch @robertmooreitv's report from inside the Capitol building as the extraordinary events unfolded in Washington DC.
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Hey Crimewatch: I think I know this guy. Neighbours say he keeps himself to himself and they never had any inkling etc etc.
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Fair point ?.
Americans are going to have to eat their own cheeses. Trust me, they’ll crack first.
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Whenever i see this photo I realise, with mounting horror, that MISHAL IS ONLY PRETENDING TO THINK I AM FUNNY.
Good morning. @mishalhusainbbc and @justinonweb have the latest news and stories until 9am. 🎙️📰. Listen here: Discuss the programme by using #r4today
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🤪. I have no views on aid but more importantly I am not . ,.
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Webb calls the aid cut "shameful and wrong" and "made worse by no set date for restoration.".
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Often think the quietest interviews in our programme are the most devastating.
A former top civil servant accuses Rishi Sunak of failing to fully fund a critical schools rebuilding scheme when he was Chancellor. Jonathan Slater tells @BBCNickRobinson 300-400 schools a year needed to be rebuilt but there was only funding for 100, which was further cut to 50.
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Oi @StigAbell how about safe spaces for @BBCr4today folk quietly catching the train home 😆
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We also hear about Angelina's transition from wild to serious. She jokes, "I don't know if I have a skeleton left in my closet . I can take a lot on the chin." So might she run for the White House, "For now, I'll sit quiet." But she does't rule it out. Joe Biden watch out.
LISTEN: @UN Refugee Agency’s Special Envoy, Angelina Jolie, is this morning’s @BBCr4today Christmas guest editor. @JustinOnWeb will discuss her views on the global refugee crisis and violence against women #r4today
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On the plus side: one in the eye for racists everywhere 🏉🏉🏉.
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@sjblakemore @BBCr4today ooh I'm so sorry absolutely bang to rights - it could be that her title was wrong on my paper but (more likely) I got so excited by hugging that I forgot. Will NEVER happen again 😳.
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I'd normally agree but it's not just football is it? It's power. Who runs things? And for whom? And community versus globalism etc.
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Favourite shot of John this morning ( taken by Jeff Overs) — captures his secret which is not nastiness but humanity
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The question whether biological sex exists is not one any politician seems keen to approach. In fairness what would the other leaders say?.
Does @joswinson believe that biological sex exists? "I don't think things are as binary as is often presented," she tells @JustinonWeb - discussing @LibDems manifesto commitment to reform the Gender Recognition Act, including recognising non-binary gender identities. #r4Today
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If anyone wants to see our interview with Andrew Malkinson - it’s on Instagram @bbctodayprogramme - strangely uplifting in spite of the horror of it and just a lovely man.
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Me and @BowenBBC in shot taken only slightly post war. Is he drinking something pink? And were our expenses paid?
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@TomMcTague @sebschmoller Puts me in mind of Alan Johnson story of how even in horror of post war poverty he and sister could navigate system via humans they could persuade/shout at/get to relent. Now: not so much.
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Congrats to Hannah 💥Huge loss though: behind the scenes she’s been such a role model to so many colleagues.
PERSONAL NEWS: After 15 wonderful years, it’s with a mix of great sadness and huge excitement that I have decided to leave the BBC. I’m enormously grateful for the opportunity to work at the world’s leading broadcaster, alongside so many exceptional colleagues.
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Fascinating.
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said in 2020 "trans women are women". Has she changed her position asks @EmmaBarnett?. Yes - and no - seems to be the answer. #R4Today.
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Thought the audition went well but apparently the presenters this year are particularly good. Anyhow @BBCr4today tomorrow for all #eurovision news serious and fun
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Fascinating interview with Imran Khan by @MishalHusain - Never mind Andrew Neil: if I were a world leader Mishal is the person I would fear (as Aung San Suu Kyi knows).
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This opening sequence will never be bettered.
31 October 1973. The first episode of the 26-part classic ITV documentary series, World at War, was broadcast. It was narrated by Laurence Olivier, with music by Carl Davies. It cost £900,000 (worth £11 million today).
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Welcome Martha - but why the alarm clock? Generally we are clubbing till 4 🍺🔥🤪
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We'll be hearing from a human rights barrister about this after 8.30.
This judgment removes women’s rights and the right to freedom of belief and speech. It gives judicial licence for women and men who speak up for objective truth and clear debate to be subject to aggression, bullying, no platforming and economic punishment.
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This’ll be great ✌️😉. Well she will be ….
Join @mariannaspring and @JustinOnWeb speaking about trolls, conspiracies and disinformation…her first book! Tickets here:
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You get up early and grab the first shoes you feel in the dark .
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Say what you like about Americans and I love em all but headline writing is really not their thing.
Covers of Washington Post and New York Times tomorrow: Identical headline
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It's now unprofessional to ask questions of the leader of the opposition? Bizarre. Libby is a highly professional worker doing her job
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You could watch the club game on @btsportrugby - better quality and more entertainment 💪.
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💥💥💥 v good news.
Here we go @BBCr4today *sets alarm clock* ⏰ . Farewell to my beloved @BBCWomansHour . A few more words from me below via the link ⬇️.
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"the audience for downloads is still dwarfed by the number of people who tune in to national radio stations in their millions." Well I never. Perhaps yoofs get older and listen to the radio. and deserve it to be resourced in the future.
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One of the most decent humane reporters of his generation. Also: top guy. Never met anyone who dislikes him which in our business is ……. unusual.
I’ve got some personal news. After an amazing time reporting for the BBC since 1983, I’ve decided to leave for new ventures. From Belfast to Brussels and Antarctica to the Amazon, it’s been an incredible journey. 1/3
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Any families recently affected by a type one diabetes diagnosis -- tell the child @Sladey_10 has it. And watch him on the sports bit of the news tonight. @JDRFUK . It'll be cured one day but until then you can be wonderful with it. #IREvENG.
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She took my wedding photos 😻 One of the great mums.
My mother Jennifer on the touch line at Cardiff Arms Park at a Five Nations rugby match. Not only was she a pioneering female photojournalist, she is still the best mother anyone could have. And grandmother….
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We were really honoured to meet him and thanks for choosing @BBCr4today - at its best live radio still has the power to engage people and he certainly did that 💥.
Andy Malkinson sends his thanks to @JustinOnWeb and @bbcnickrobinson for their warmth and empathy. The early start wasn't easy - but it was fully worth it 😉. If anyone would like to help us fight for others like Andy please donate #NotTheOnlyOne.
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