Nathan Gower
@NathanJGower
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Producer and journalist for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service, currently working on More or Less. Novels, nature, history, and a good deal else besides.
Lewes, East Sussex
Joined April 2012
(I know this is just shouting into the void; sometimes it feels good to shout into the void. Please don't take the void away from me.)
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Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds
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Rachel Reeves is about to get a stern letter from the man employed by Portakabin® in York whose job is to write angry letters to anyone who publicly refers to a mobile building unit as a Portakabin® without evidence it is a Portakabin®.
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"That is brilliant." Learn the maths hack from @robeastaway that blew the minds of @ChrisMasonBBC and @TimHarford
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Episode 204 - the final episode of The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast is out now We talk to @PeteApps, expert witness Beryl Menzies and @HRRBFireSafety about the findings & hear from bereaved and survivors - including how they met Keir Starmer this week https://t.co/AKjSxYqq4D
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“Decades of failure”, “systematic dishonesty” and “incompetence”
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Sections on govt reject the evidence of Lord Eric Pickles and severely criticise the "profound" failure to act after the Lakanal House coroner's inquest in 2013 - which it links directly to the deregulatory agenda of govt https://t.co/JPle3zwMUa
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🚨 Grenfell Inquiry report 🚨 - "Complacent" govt "well aware" of risk of cladding disaster but failed to act - "Systematic dishonesty" by product manufacturers "very significant reason" for fire - "Chronic and systemic" fire safety failures by tower's social landlords
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Grenfell: Building a Disaster is out now on BBC Sounds & will be on R4 @ 1.45 daily Each ep is 15 mins, so if you have a moment to hear about the missed opportunities & unheeded warnings which led to a fire which killed 72 people, please give it a listen https://t.co/NsCbEbGUEq
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What a fire in west London that killed 72 people shows about how Britain works and doesn't
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Journalist Evan Gershkovich lifts his mother, Ella Milman, as US President Joe Biden looks on, on the tarmac after arriving home at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Thursday.
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What's it like to compete in the Olympics while your brother is fighting on the frontline? Hear Ukrainian hurdler Viktoriya Tkachuk in the latest #Ukrainecast
https://t.co/9UPsmlq1w0
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What a brilliant little article. If you like Mad Men and introspection (the latter probably following from the former, let's be honest), this will softly touch you.
"Picking the music for Carousel and timing my navel-gazing monologues over the top has been the closest to a capital-d Dramatist I’ve ever felt" @IvoGraham shares a Mad Men-inspired mixtape with us, ahead of his new theatre show Carousel https://t.co/7LdiNQGTcY
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It’s Friday July 19, 2024. WSJ’s Evan Gershkovich was detained by the Russian FSB Mar 29, 2023. 1 year & 111 days ago HE WAS JUST “CONVICTED” AND SENTENCED TO 16 YEARS IN A SHAM TRIAL https://t.co/W4GFHd5RVD JOURNALISM IS NOT A CRIME! FREE EVAN NOW! #IStandWithEvan
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The @bbcproms is upon us! 🎼 Watch @petroctrelawny discover a breathtaking view of the @RoyalAlbertHall from the very top of the corona!
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"Russian state media are all over that clip" How did President Joe Biden's Nato gaffes go down in Russia? Listen to Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko on #Ukrainecast... https://t.co/JjoWCJeJyr
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This is perhaps the weirdest set of general election results in history.
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This certainly seems right - no one or two trends, but loads chaotically interacting.
Ultimately, this election is a total mess results wise. You've got multiple dynamics happening as part of a fragmenting party system. Hard to tell what the final tallies will be.
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Everything we’ve seen suggests the exit poll is underestimating the scale of Labour and Liberal Democrat gains and electoral efficiency, and overestimating Reform and the Conservatives:
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Listening to the choughs under an (almost) cloudless blue sky, providing the perfect accompaniment for listening to breakfast, @PetrocTrelawny.
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